The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-02-09
waterfall six Times the Dansv,
OF Niagara.

Dlu any OF your readers ever hear of the Gair-
SUPPa ans near Honore7 If not, thew will
Ptoodoy teau description which has inst an.
peared with some pleasure It is cnroTs pIatP =
fall SIX times the depth of Niagara should e't
almost unknown From the VILLAGE of GosI',n
reached by river Of the same name tho -
was carried for twelve miles up the M.l;n+,ob
Pass, and reached the Falls Bungalow nho',.
three and half hours after leaving the ton oftba
! Pass. F - VIC
An amphilheatre of woods, and river, about
QUO yards wide, rushing and boiling to certain
point, v here it is lost in perpetual mist. and IN
an unceaSing deafening roar must first be imag-
lned' Leaving the Bungalow on the Madras
slde ct the river, and defending to a osition no.
| low the river level, you work your way nm care
1ully and tediously over slippery rocks until Won
lSdch point where rock about twice the size
~ a a man oouy' luts out over precipice Rest
ing nat upon this rock, and looking over If Won
see directly before you two out of the fonr ny;n,
| clpal Fails; these two are icalled the .tGreat
Fail and ''Ihe Rocket The one contains q
| large body Of water, the main body of the liver
perhaps 50 yards across, which falls massiveIv
ana apparently snggishly into the chasm below:
ana the other contains similar body Of water
"llcn shooLS oat IN successive sprays over sue
cesslve points Of rock, till it falls into the same
chasm. '"ih0
1hls chasm is at least 900 feet in dentb s;v
tlmes the depth of the Niagara Falls, which are
about $50 feet; and perhaps quarter 10 half
mile IN widl' These are the first two falls to be
VISITED. Then move little below your first no.
sltlon' and You will observe first turbid BOILING
nooy OF water of greater volume than the Rocket
All, running and streaming down into the same
cnasm-this IS he third fall, the ''Roarer." and
tnGn carrying your eye little farther down YOU
Will observe another fall, the loveest softest and
most graceful of all being a broad expansc of
swallow water falling like transparent silver lace
over a smooth surface of polished rock into the
same chasm this is LA Dame Blanche and
the White Lady of Avenel could not have benn
more graceful and ethereal. But do not contin-
ue yourself at any one place in order to viewing
theSe laiis Scramble everywhere you can. and
get as many views as you can of them, and Won
VIII be unable to decide upon which is the most
beautiful. And do You want. to have a faint
lGea OF The depth Of the chasm into which the
glorious waters fall
Take out yom watch and drop as large q niece
OF rock as you can hold from your viewing place:
IL VIII De several seconds before YOU even lose
slgnt OF the piece Of rock, and even then if will
not have reached the chasm, it will not have
reached the water at the foot of the chasm. it
VIII only have been lost to hnman sight or watch |
ne Diue pigeons wheeling and circling in and |
out the Great Fall within the chasm, and LOOKING
nke sparrowS in size in the depths beneath Won |
buG you nave a only seen one, and that one |
perhaps the ieyelicSt, and at least not the most
comprehensive view of the falls You must pro- |
ceed TWO mlleS-up the river above the falls and
cross over ina ferry, where the waters are still
smooth as glass ana sluggish as Hollander |
ana proceed to the Mysore side ofthe falls, walk
ing nrst to the point where you will see them all
at glance, ana then descending as near as YOU
can to !, ioot 81 these, to be drenched by the
spray, d9atened by the noise and awe-struck by |
the grandeur OF the scene, and by the VISIBLE |
presence OF the Creator of it, in the perpetual
rainbow otmany aud brilliant hues which spans