The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
The Falls of Niagara Surpassed in
India.

Did any of our readers ever hear of the
Gairsoppa Falls, near lIonore: lfnot, they
will probably read with some pleasure do
scrpton which has just appeared in the
Calcutta papers. 1t is curious that a fall
six times tho depth of niagara, should re-
main almost unknown. From tho village of
Gairsoppa. reached by river of tho same
name. tho writer was carried for twelve
miles np tho Malimuch Pass, and reached
the Falls Bungalow about threo hours and
half ter leaving the top of tho Pass. An
amphtheatre of woods, and river about
FIVE hundred yards wide, rushing and boil
ing to a certain point. whore it is lost in
perpetual mist and in an uncoasing doafen-
ing roar, must first DO imagined Leaving
tho Bungalow on the Madras silo of tho
river, and descending to a position below
tho river level, you work your way up caro-
| fully and tcdiously over slippery rocks until
! you reach point where rock about twice
tho size of mans body juts out over pre-.
| cipcc. Resting fiat upon this rock, and
looking over it, you soc directly before you
two out of the four principal falls; those
two are called the Great Fall and THE
Rocket" Tho one contains largo body of
water, tho main body of the river, perhaps
| ifty yards across, which falls massively and
apparently sluggisbly into tho chasm below,
nnd tho other contains q smaller body OF
water, which shoots ou: in successive SPRAYS
over successive points of rocks, till it fails
into tho same chasm. THIS chasm is al
least nine hundred feet in dcpth-six times
tho depth of the Niagara Falls, which are
! about ono hundred and fifty feet, and per
baps quarter TO half a milo in width
These are tho first two falls to be visited
Then movo a little below your first position
and you will observe first turgid boiling
body of water of greater volume than tn,
Rocket FALL rushing and steaming dowr
into the samo chasm this is the ,hird fall
the "Roarer." Then, carrying your eye
little further down, you will observe another
fall, the loveliest, softest and most graceful
of ell. being broad cxpanse of shallow wa
ter falling like transparent silver lace Owe
n smooth surface Of polished rock into thf,
samo oboaw; ttTs Is La D1me blanche,
and the White Lady of Aveno could no
! have been more graceful and ethereal. Bu
, Go not coniino yourself to any one place il
order to Wow these falls; scramble ovory
whero YOU can, and get as many views a;
: you can of them. and you will! bo unable tc
decide upon which is tho most beautiful
t And do you want to have faint idea of The
depth of the chasm into which these glorious
waters fall Take out your watch ant
, drop as largo pieco of rock as you can hole
from your viewing place; 1t will be seycra
= seconds before you even loso sight of tn,
, piece of rock, and then even it will not hav,
reached the water at the foot Of tho chasn
it will only have been lost 10 human sight
: or watch tho bluo pigeons, wheeling ant
1 circling in and out the Great Fall within
= tho chasm, and looking like sparrows il
size in the depth bercath you. But you
: have yet only seen one, and that not per
haps the ioveliest, and at least not the mos
y comprehensive, view of tho falls. You mus
|, proceed two miles up the river above tn
U falls, and cross over at ferry, whcro tn
, waters are still and smooth as glass an
s sluggish as Hollandor, and proceed to th
c Mysore side of tho falls, walking first to
d point where you will SEQ them all at glance
!. and then descending as near as you can
tho foot of these, to bo drenched Oy tn
J. spray, deatened by the noise and awe struc
8, by the grandeur Of the sceno, and by til
d presence Of tho Creator Of it, in tho rel
% petual rainbow of many and brilliant hue
which span the foot of the chasm.