Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1860-02-18
WATERFALL SIX TIMES TuE
DEPTH OF NIAGARA.
prom tn. Times Calcutta Congregational

(From the Times Calcutta Corrrspondency)
Did any OF our rerlers ever boar Of the
uairsoppa Falls, near Honorvi II not they
will probably read a description which has
just appeared with some pleasure. Il Is cur
ious that fall six times the depth Of Mas ara
should remain almost unknown, From the
village Of dairsoppa, reached by tho river Of
the same name. the writer was carried for
twelve miles up tho Malimuneh Pass, and
reached the Falls Bungalow about three
and u half hours after leaving the top Of tho
pass.
40 Rmphitheatrs Of woods, aud river,
about Ave huudrs d yards wide rushing ana
boiling to certain point where IL 10 lost in
perpetual mist, aud in an unoeasing and
dcAfcning roar, must ret he imagined -
Leaving the Bungalow on the Madras side OF
the river aud descending to Il position below
the river level, you work your way up care
fully and tediously over slippery rocks, until
you reach point, where a rock about twice
the s,4o Of maus body juts out over a prco
ipieO Resting fat upon this rock, and
looking over il, you see directly before you
two ont or the four principal falls these two
ars allied the droat Fall" ami "tho Rocket"
Tho one contains large body Of water, the
main body Of the river, perhaps hfty yards
across, which falls massively and apparently
suggishly into tho ohasm below, and 'ht
other contains email body Of water, which
shoots out In successive sprsys over sue
cessive points efroek, ill il falls into the same
chasm. This chasm Is at least nine hundred
feet In depth, siz times the depth Of the Mia
CARA Falls which is about Que hundred pud
df'y feet, and perhaps 0quar,ss to a half
milein Width.
These are the two fret falls 70 10 visited --
Then move little below your first position,
and you will observe, FIRST urbid boiling
body Of water Of greater volume than the
Rocket Fall, running and steaming down into
the same chasm-this is the third fall, the
"Roarer," " and then carrying your ego a little
further down YOU will Observe another fail
the loveliest, sOftest, and most graceful Of all
being q broad oKpGnse OF shalleW water fall. !
ing like transparent silver lake over smooth |
surface Of polished rock into this sa,ae |
,hagm. this in LA Dame Blanche" und the
White Lady Of Avcuel could not have been
more gracefu' ana ethereal. But DO not con
ice yourself to any one place in order to view
heso falls. Scramble everywhere You car
md get ~ many yiews a8 you crn pr tr.n
nd you will be unable to decide upon wayr
) tho most beautiful Aud DO you want to
,Avea faint idea Of the depth ofths chnsm
nto yhch the glorious waters fall! Take
,ut your watch and drop as large piece Of
ock as you can hold from your viewing plass
I will be Goveral seconds before you even lose
sill not have reached the water at the foot Of
he chnsm, Il will only have been lost to hu-
nan sight, or watch the blue pigeons, wheel
ug aud circling in aud out the Great Fall
sirbin the chssm, and looking ike sParrows
u size Ia tho depths beneath you But you
ave yet Ouly cen one, aud that not peThap,
be loy0lieet aud at least not tho N 1st com
,reLeusive view Of the falls. You must pro
.ced two miles up the river above the falls and
ross over at q ferry. where the waters are
liil smooth As glass Rad sluggish a- Hpl
onder, and proceed to tho Mysore side If the
,ils, walking fret TO point wharo sou will
zee them RtR glance and then desccuding a.
,ear ar you can 10 the foot @, these. TO no
lrencLed by the spray @aal'neG by he Eoi.e
md ave struck by The grandeur Of the tasre,
nd by the yiSabte presence Of tho CTeator of
{, in the perePstual rainbow Of many ard
brilliant huss which spans tho flot Of ,Lo
hasm.