APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XL 



Recent Explorations. — Rediscovery of the Grand 



Falls. 



On page 231 we referred to Mr. Randle Holme's ascent 

 of the Grand River, to a point within fifty miles of the 

 Grand Falls, which he claimed to be " the most stupen- 

 dous falls in the world," giving a greatly exaggerated 

 estimate of their height. During the summer of 1891, 

 the Bowdoin College expedition to Labrador, in charge 

 of Professor Leslie A. Lee, sent a party up the Grand 

 River, .which happily solved the mystery which has hung 

 over the subject, and thus achieved the most important 

 geographical discovery which has been made in the 

 interior of Labrador since the first discovery of this cata- 

 ract by white men. . The following account has been 

 prepared from dispatches, sent to the daily press, and has 

 been kindly revised by Professor Lee and Mr. Cary. 



The expedition left Rockland, Me., early in July in 

 the Julia Decker, a schooner of ninety tons, the party 

 consisting of nineteen members. 



The party left Rigolet for Grand River, July 27, 

 equipped with two Rushton boats, a kodak, surveying 

 instruments, fire-arms, and provisions for a month. E. 



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