Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-01-21
A Waterfall Six Times the Depth of
Niapara

Did any of your readers ever hear of the
Garsoppa Falls, near Honore? If not, they
will probably read description which has just
appeared with some pleasure. 1t is curious
that fall six times the depth Of the Niagara
should remain almost unknown. From the
village Of tiarsoppa, reached by river OF the
same name, the writer was carried for twelve
miles up the Malimunch Pass, and reached the
Falls Bungalow about three and half hours
after leaping the top of the Pass;
i" An amphitheatre of woods, and river,
about 500 yards wide, rushing and boiling to a
certain point where il is lost in n perpetual
mist and in an unceasing deafening roar, must
first he imagined. Leaving the Bungalow on
the Madras side of the river, and descendingto
IL position below the river level, you work your
way up carefully and tediously over slippery
rocks, until you reach a point, where rock
about twice as large as mans body Juts out
over precpipe Resting fiat upon this rock,
and looking over it, you see directly before
you two out of the four principal Falls; these
two are called the "Great FalP' and "the
Rocket The one contains large body of
water, the main body of the river, perhaps 90
yards across, which falls massively and appa-
rently sluggshly into the chasm below; and
the other contains smaller body of water,
which shoots out in successive sprays over sue
cessiye points of rock till it falls into the same
chasm. This chasm is at least 900 feet in
Depth six times the depth of the Niagara Fails,
which are about $50 feet, and perhaps quar-
ter to A half a mile in width. Thess are the
first two falls to be visited. Then move d lit
tie below your first position, and You will OBJ
serve first turgd 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 car
rying your eye a little further down you Will
observe another fall, the loveliest, softest, and
most graceful of all, being broad expanse of
shallow water falling like transparent silver
lace over smooth surface of polished rock into
this same chasm; this is La Dame Blanche"
and the White Lady of Avenel could not have
been more graceful and ethereal. But do not
confne yourself to any one place in order to
view these falls; scramble everywhere you
can and get as many views as you can OF them,
and you will be unable to decide upon which
is the most beautiful And do you want to
have faint idea of the depth OF the chasm
into which these glorious waters fallY Take
out your watch and drop as large piece oil
rock as you can hold from your viewing place
il will lie several seconds before you even lose
sight of the piece of rock, and then even 1t Will
not have reached the water at the foot OF the
chasm; it will only have been lost to human
Siknt, or WutcH lnc Dluc piBeohot " hS.t..o $50
circling in and out the Great Fall WITHIN the
chasm, and looking like sparrows in size in the
depths beneath you. But you have yet only
seen one, and that not perhaps the loyeliest,
and at least not the most comprehensive view
of the falls You must proceed two miles up
the river above the falls and cross over at
ferry, where the waters are still smooth as a
glass and sluggish as n Hollander, and proceed
to the Mysore side of the falls, walking first to
n point where you will see them all at glance
and then descending as near as you can to the
foot of these, to be drenched by the spray
deafened by the noises and awestruck by the
grandeur Of the scene and by the visible pres
ence of the Creator of it, in the perpetual rain
bow Of many and brilliant hues which spans
the foot of the chasm."