Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-01-28
A WATERFALL SIX TINES THE DEPTH OF
NIAGARA.

Did any Of your readers ever hear of the
Gairsoppa Falls, near nonoro? If not, they will
probably read q description which has JUS.
appeared with some pleasure. lii curious tina,
a fall six times the depth of Niagara should remain
almost unknown, From the village of Gairsoppa,
reached by the river Of the same name, the writer
was carried for twelve miles up tho Malimunch
Pass, and reached the Falls Bungalow abou, three
and a half hours after leaving tho top of the Pass
An am?hithea.re Of woods, and a river. about
live hundred yards wide, ru,hing and boiling to n
certain point, where it is los. in a perpetual mist
and in an unceasing dcafcning roar, must first DO
imagined. Leaving the Bungalow on the Madras
side OF the river, and descending to q position
below the river level, you work your way up
carefully and tediously over slippery rocks, until
you reach 4 poin', where a rock about twice the
size ola mans body juts out over a precipice
Resting dat upon this rock, and looking over it,
you SEQ directly before you two on. of four priuci-
Pal Falls; these two are called the Great FALL and
the Rocket The ono contains a large body Of
water,'he main btdy Of the river, perhaps fifty yards
across, which falls massively and apparently
sluggishly into the chasm below; and the other
contains q small body Of water, which shoots out
in ever successive POINTS Of rock, till it falls into
The same chasm. This cliasm is at least nine
hundred feet in depth, six times the depth of
Niagara Falls, which ae about one hundred feet,
and perhaps a quarter to a haR mile in width.
These are the FIRST two fall to lie visited. Then
move a little below your FIRST position, and you
will observe fist a turgid boiling body Of water Of
greater volume than the Rocket Fail, running and
tteaming down into the same chasm-this is the
third fall, the Roarer,' and then carrying your
eye a little farther down you will observe another
fall, the lovliest, softest. and most graceful Of all ;
!, being a broad expanse of shallow water falling
like transparent silver lace over q 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 c1afne yourself to any ono place in or
/, der 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 a
faiut idea of the depth Of the chasm into which
the glorious waters fall 7 Take out your watch
and drop as large q piece of rock as you can hold
from your viewing place; it twill be several seconds
before you even lose sight Of tho piece of rock
and then, even then it will have not reached the
water at tho foot Of tho chasm, it will only have
been lost to human sight; or watch tho blue pig.
cons, wheeling and circlIng in and out the Groa,
Fall within the chasm, and looking like sparrows
. in size in the depths beneath yoa. But you have
" yet only seen one, and that not perhaps the low.
est, and at least not The most comprehensive view
Of the falls, You must proceed two miles up thu
u river above the falls and cross over at a ferry
! where the waters are still smooth as glass anC
sluggish as a uollauder, aud proceed to the NV
rose side of the falls, walking first to q poin
# where you will see them all at a glance, and ther
descending MS near as you can to the foo: of these
to be drenched by the spray. dealcned by tn,
# noise, awe-itruck ty the grandeur of the seen,
and by the visatle presence of the Creator of it, il
K the p%erpetua! rainbow Of many and brilliant hae
which spans the foot Of the chasm.' Cor. ca!
cuHa Times.