520 General Notes. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. 
AMERICA.—THE INTERIOR OF LABRADOR.—Mr. R. F. Holme 
recently read to the Royal Geographical Society an interesting 
account of a journey to the interior of Labrador. Although the coast 
is utterly bare and treeless, a luxurious forest growth commences at 
a distance inland of about twelve miles, and clothes the whole of 
the country except the barrens or moors, which are the home of the 
caribou. Mr. Holme has ascended all the rivers that flow into 
Hamilton Inlet as far as navigable in a boat. One of the most 
important of these is the Kenamou, used as one of the routes from 
‘the south. By far the largest river of this district is the Grand, 
which is the name given to the channel connecting Lake Petchika- 
pou with Goose Bay, at the head of Hamilton Inlet. Grand River is 
really only a portion of a continuous water-way of rivers and lakes con- 
necting Goose Bay with Ungava Bay. Lake Wiminikapou is situated 
about 150 miles from the mouth of Grand River, and thirty miles 
above that long and narrow lake are the Grand Falls, the height of 
which is not known, but which may prove to be among the most 
stupendous in the world. The elevation of the Labrador table-land 
is given by Professor Hind at 2240 feet, and at least 2000 feet of 
this are in the thirty miles between the head of these falls and the 
lake below. 
Lake Petchikapou, one of the largest of the interior lakes of 
Eastern Labrador, is connected with the ocean not only by Gran 
River, but by Nascopee River and Grand Lake. The Indians of 
the interior of Labrador are all of the Cree nation, and are perhaps 
the most unadulterated Indians to be found on the continent. 
G. Guillemard, in a note to the May number of the Proc. Roy. 
g. Soc. suggests that possibly the Grand Falls of Grand River 
(Labrador) might be reached more readily by following up the 
Moisie River from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and skirting Lake 
Aswanipi. He also says: “ The fall from a height at all approach- 
ing 2000 feet of a river 500 yards in width a short distance higher 
up, would form one of the wonders of the world, and would surely 
have been described by Mr. Maclean after returning from his visit 
in 1839. Mr. Guillemard mentions among waterfalls combining 
reat volume of water and great height, the Garsoppa a 
Western Hindostan, 300 yards wide and 830 feet high, and the 
Kaieteur Fall of the Potaro River in British Guiana, 123 yards 
wide and 741 feet in vertical height. 
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