Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-13

The FALLS OF NIAGARA SURPASSED IN
INDIA.-Did any of your readers ever hear of
the Giarsoppa Falls, near Honore? If not,
they will probably read with some pleasure a
description which has just appeared in the
Calcutta papers. 1t is curious that fall six
times the depth of Niagara should remain al
most unknown. From the village of Giarsop-
pa, reached by river OF the same name the
writer was carried for twelve miles up the
Malimunch Pass and reached the Falls Bun
galow about three hours and a half after leav-
ing the top of the Pass an amphitheatre of
woods, and a river about five hundred yards
wide, rushing and boiling TO certain point,
where it is lost in perpetual mist and in an
unceasing deatening roar, must first be imagin-
ed. Leaving the Bungalow on the Madras
side of the river, and descending to position
below the river level, you work your way up
carefully and tediously over slippery rocks
until you reach point where a rock about
twice the size of a mans body juts out over
precipice. Resting fiat upon this rock, and
looking over it, you see directly before you
two out of the four principal falls; the two
are called the "Great Fal' and ''The Rocket"
The one contains large body of water, the
main body of the river, perhaps fifty yards
across, which falls massively and apparently
sluggishly, into the chasm below, and the 9TH
er contains a smaller body of water, which
shoots out in successive sprays over successive
points of rocks, till it falls into the same
chasm. The chasm is at least nine hundred
feet in depth--sx times the depth of the Mia
CARA Falls, which are about one hundred and
fifty feet, and perhaps quarter to half
mile in width. These are the first two falls to
,be visited. Then move little below your first
position, and you will observe q turgid boiling
body of water of greater volume than the
Rocket Fall, rushing and streaming down into
the same chasm this is is the third fall, the
"Roarer." Then, carrying your eye little
further down, you will observe another fall,
the loveliest, softest, and most splendid of all,
being broad expanse of shallow water falling
like transparent silver lace over a smooth sur
face OF polished rock into this same chasm
this is ola Dame Blanche" and the White La
dy of Avenel could not have been more grace
full and ethereal. But do not con6ne 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 a faint idea of the
depth of the chasm into which these glorious
waters fall? Take out your watch and drop
as large piece of rock as you can hold, from
your viewing place it will be several seconds
before you even lose sight OF the piece of rock,
and even then it will not have reached the
water at the foot of the chasm-it will only
nave been lost to human sight, or watch the
blue pigeons, wheeling and crcling in and
out the Great Fall within the chasm, and
looking IKE sparrows in size in the depths
bsneath you. But you have yet only seen
one, and that perhaps not the loveest, 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,
wnere tne waters are sun and smooth as glass
the Mysore side Of the falls, walking first 10 a
point where you will see them all at a glance.
and then descending as near as you can 10 the
foot Of these, to be drenched by the spray.
deafened by the noise and awe-struck BY the
grandeur of the scene, and by the presence OF
the Creator of it, in the perpetual rainbow Of
many and brilliant hues which spans the foot
of the chasm.