HAMILTON

hamilton, a town of dundas and normanby counties, victoria, australia, on the grange burne creek, 197-1/2 m. by rail w. of melbourne. pop. (1901) 4026. hamilton has a number of educational institutions, chief among which are the hamilton and western district college, one of the finest buildings of its kind in victoria, the hamilton academy, and the alexandra ladies' college, a state school, and a catholic college. it has a fine racecourse, and pastoral and agricultural exhibitions are held annually, as the surrounding district is mainly devoted to sheep-farming. mutton is frozen and exported. hamilton became a borough in 1859. hamilton (grand or ashuanipi), the chief river of labrador, canada. it rises in the labrador highlands at an elevation of 1700 ft., its chief sources being lakes attikonak and ashuanipi, between 65 deg. and 66 deg. w. and 52 deg. and 53 deg. n. after a precipitous course of 600 m. it empties into melville lake (90 m. long and 18 wide), an extension of hamilton inlet, on the atlantic. about 220 m. from its mouth occur the grand falls of labrador. here in a distance of 12 m. the river drops 760 ft., culminating in a final vertical fall of 316 ft. below the falls are violent rapids, and the river sweeps through a deep and narrow canyon. the country through which it passes is for the most part a wilderness of barren rock, full of lakes and lacustrine rivers, many of which are its tributaries. in certain portions of the valley spruce and poplars grow to a moderate size. from the head of lake attikonak a steep and rocky portage of less than a mile leads to burnt lake, which is drained into the st lawrence by the romaine river.