Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-13
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Did any of our readers ever hear Of
the Gairsoppa Falls, near Honore? II
not, they win probably read with some
pleasure description which has just ap-
peared in the Calcutta papers. It is
curious that fall six times the depth of
Niagara should remain almost unknown.
From the village Of Gairsoppa, reached
by river of the same name, the writer
was carried for twelve miles up the Mali
munich Pass and reached the Bungalo
about three hours and half after Ieav-
ing the top of thepass. Anamphitheater
of woods, and river about five hundred
wards wide, rushing and boiling to a GER
tain point, where it is lost in perpetual
mist and in an unceasing deafening roar,
must first be imagined.
Leaving the Bungalo on the Madras
side of the river, and descending to a
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 the size
of a mans body juts out over a preci-
pice. 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 Falls"
and "The Rocket The one contains a
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
other contains smaller body of water,
which shoots out in successive sprays
over successive points OF rocks, till 1t
falls into the same chasm.. This chasm
is at least nine hundred feet in depth
six times the depth of the Niagara falls,
which are about one hundred and fifty
feet, and perhaps quarter to half a
mile in width. These are the first two
falls to be visited.
Then move little below your first
position, and you will observe first a tur-
bid boiling body of water of greater vol
ume than the Rocket Fall, rushing and
streaming down into the same chasm;
this is the third fall, the "Roarer. -
Then carrying your eye a little further
down, you will observe another fall, the
loveliest, softest, and most graceful of
all, being a broad expanse of shallow
water falling like transparent silver lace
over smooth surface of polished rock
into this same chasm; this is ola Dame
Blanche" and the White Lady of Avenel
could not have been more graceful and
ethereal. But do not confne yourselfto
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 the chasm into which these
glorious waters fall? Take out your
watch and drop as large peice of rock
as you can hold, from youryiewing place;
it will be several seconds before you even
lose sight of the piece of rock, and then
even it will not have reached the water
at the foot of the chasm-it will only
have been lost to human sight; or watch
the blue pigeons, wheeling and 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 loveliest, 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 and
smooth as glass and sluggish as Hollan-
der and proceed to the Mysore side of
the falls, walking first to point where
you will see them all at glance, and
then descending as near as you can to the
foot of these, to be drenehed 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 per-
petual rainbow Of many and brilliant
hues which spanssthe foot of the chasnn.