New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-09

| 49, s,,,s-h,pce more debris oo that side as frag
.n,. are more Liable 10 fall regret exceedingly 70
.oon ,be,e nhrepes.ed accounts Of the perfect Tegu
| liz, n the fslls Were bind should agree with
hem were Oh the other side might not detect their
| e,ror but vhat see that must describe.
But Dosice one peculiarly Of this fall which gives
tie character and greatly sdds 10 aod saotracs from
i;s beauty The fan h not c!ear fall The water als
smoothly for some % feet and here, striking on
ledge the sheet IL dsshed almost into FOAM and ac-
complshes the remainder Of its journey more Ike
spray hurled downward by irregular violence than
u.d under the influence Of gravitaton. 1T irregular
and constantly varying outline reminds us OF column
of smoke steam but this motion "a violent and an
gular while that il slow and graceful comparison
between them only bejustifed for wan, OF better
Cones of spray here and there shoot out suddenly in
advance Of falling rnsss but are soon overtAken aud
absorbed by the body from which they sprung. The
rainbow hanging over it is varying every instant,
for where now it is brightest an instant hence there
may be mist there may be mas OF water too "
regular 10 form a rainbow. The point where these
observations are best made s sort OF table rock just
Of the brink of the water Another rock overhangs it
covered with Thebaudiss ferns and orchid plsnts
making alInosta grot;ofor the observer.
We must not forge. tina. this s just the close Of
winter and equenty in the three months Of sun
mer which follow the stream now 700 small in volume
for the mighty proportions ofthe gulf smaller
till one observer gravely declares that the whole s dis
sipated in mist before reaching the bottom
Ofthe depth you can judge nothing. does not look
much If any, deeper than Niagara, but 10 more than
three times deep IL is difficult either to or hear
stone fail 10 the bottom, bat throw as yon will it
seems in towards the ledge as it descends AID
in fair way TO strike exactly beneath your feet
The prominence IN depth then over every other cat
aract in this hemisphere does not TELL IL cannot be
compared to Niagara You do not here hear the awful
subbsss of Niagara The noise ia less than that OF
many smaer cstsracts account ofthe quantity Of air
carried down with the water In fact think most Of
the roar is from the first leap Of only twenty feet
If Niagara has rival in the world must be the Falls
Of the Missouri, of which have good account
but it il seems liule curious that Europe should mon
opolize all the high Falls. Norway, Sweden, swift
erland and the Pyrenees alone boast OF higher
F.lls than Tequepdama but Of these six perhaps
only exceed this in subhmty-Lulea in Sweden, GOO
feet, and Ruckon Foss, Norway, 800 feet But where
In this competition OF cataract is Asia, with the highest
mountains of the worldi Has che no catarsclsf OBJ
viousy plains not mountains, mus, furnish the great
catarscts Tequepdas lie the Of the Plain of
Bogots and if Asia has equal it must be because
| her elevated steppes almost rainless deserts.
The chesm OF Tequendama not made by the
presentf Mostrvers emerge from the mist of fall 10
pool Of unfahomablc depth The first you see Of
the Bogota, IL IL running down an inclined plane Of
debris. But in some other geological era, mghtier
stream occupy ing the whole breadth of the chasm may
have made excavations which the present ia but FILL
| ing up with stones from above
Tequendsma wants the poioer Of Niagara. The river
B,i9ht be forded little above Human effort mic ht
arrest It's course and bid the cataract for while
| Were there ground near, on which a manufacturing
city could be built the whole mil be drawn OFT and
let down over a series of breast wheels as at Pater
| son.
The mist Of TeQuendsma has started some phloso-
phical speculations in my mind. The people say that
it often spreads in a dense fog the surrounding
country This fog begins in the morning a: from TO
IL. lie there fog here than Bogotai day fog
| would diminish the mean temperature of place; a
nightfog would raise il. The temperature here then
ought 10 be lower than elsewhere at the same level
found il by the water of mine about 5fo Now, al
though Bogota il hundred or two feet higher Its
perature is given, | believe, a little higher
This indicates a confirmation of my suspicious In
passing four times in sight of the Fall Mounisins |
have always the i-t ener lowering among rnerl
or pouring from them to overspread few square
miles of djonlng country Now must remember lhat
this country has ofogs ike ours but bears clouds and
mountain mists in tropical prouson This small body
OF water contrives manufactured hundred fold
mist than Niagara. The mist is begun mechanically
of this there be no doubt Is it not proPog'ted
INTERNATIONALLY Has not particle of mist the
power OF generating another in a favorable s,mos-
pherei Here is grave question. The quantity Of mist
! seneOted directly by the falls is very sniri-that
proceeding from them varies different hours OF the
DAY. and often streams of or 10 mdes Possibly all
ha, the weather has do with this mist to absorb it
a; some hours and at others Neurology 4 sci
ence is yet in its infancy. New Grenada offers wide
field for the study OF some phases Of it, which TO
be observed nowhere else except among the Andes in
| the whole world
| did no, descend into the chasm From the LETT bsnk
this Il impossible THIS altitude swimming would en-
DANCE my health. Wsding s impossible Just at this
time. There is no canoe or bridge for many miles
above. Togs league below would be hard dag 3
journey From the opposite bank journey
might bring you to the foot OF the fal but in doin
this il might be necessary to cross the swollen
stream in several places. No results 70 be obisnei by
the descent could pay present for the exposure
In fact at this moment know not whether Am really
SICK only half dead with fatigue even after the rest
! Of Sabbath. IF. Horror.
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