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HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 891 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAMILTON (See also:GRAND or ASHUANIPI)  , the See also:chief See also:river of Labrador, See also:Canada . It rises in the Labrador See also:highlands at an See also:elevation of 1700 ft., its chief See also:sources being Lakes Attikonak and Ashuanipi, between 65° and 66° W. and 52° and 53° N . After a precipitous course of boo m. it empties into See also:Melville See also:Lake (90 m. See also:long and 18 wide), an See also:extension of See also:Hamilton inlet, on the See also:Atlantic . About 220 M. from its mouth occur the See also:Grand Falls of Labrador . Here in a distance of 12 M. the river drops 76o ft., culminating in a final See also:vertical fall of 316 ft . Below the falls are violent rapids, and the river sweeps through a deep and narrow See also:canyon . The See also:country through which it passes is for the most See also:part a See also:wilderness of barren See also:rock, full of lakes and lacustrine See also:rivers, many of which are its tributaries . In certain portions of the valley spruce and poplars grow to a moderate See also:size . From the See also:head of Lake Attikonak a steep and rocky See also:portage of less than a mile leads to Burnt Lake, which is drained into the St See also:Lawrence by the Romaine river .

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