Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-01-11
The Falls of Niagara Surpassed In India

Did any of our readers ever hear of the Gair
soppa Falls. near HOnOre, If not, they will
probably read with some pleasure description
which has just appeared in the Calcutta pa
pers. 1 is curious that fall six times the
depth of Niagara should remain almost un-
known. From the village of Gairsoppa reached
by river of the same name, the writer was
carried for twelve miles up the Malimuneh
Pass. and reached the Falls Bungalow about
three hours and a half after leaving the top o.
the l.. IS f.: An amphitheatre of woods. and n
rlvCr OF about five hundred yards wide, rush
ing and boiling to- n certain point. where il is
lost IN perpetual mis-; and unceaSinC deaf
eniBg roar, must first be imagined Leaving
the Bungalow ON the Madras side of the river.
and descending 10 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
man body juts out over precipice- Resting
fiat upon this rock and looking over it, you
ZEE directly before you two out of the four prin-
CiPll falls; these two are called the Great Fall
and The Rocket. The one contains a large
body of water the main body Of the river, per-
haps fifty yards across. which falls masSively
and apparently sluggiShly into the chasm be-
low, and the other contains a smaller body of
water, which shoots Ou. in successive sprays
over sue ;essiye points of rocks, till it falls into
the same chaSm. This chasm is at least nine
hundred feet in depth-six times the depth of
tue HIS, Wnlcn are dDOut one nun
dred and fifty feet and perhaps quarter to
half mile in width. These are the first two
falls to be visited. Then move a little below
your frst position, and you will observe first
tursd boiling body of water of greater
volume than the Rocket Fall, rushing and
steaming down into the same chaSm; this Is
the third fhl-the ''ROarer Then carrying
your eve a little further down, you will OBJ
serve anather fall the lOveliest. sOftest, and
most graceful of all. being a broad expense
If shallow water falling like transparent sill
lace over smooth surface of polished
rock into this same chasm this Is LA Dame
Blanche, 4" and the W hite Lady of Avenel could
not have been more graceful and ethereal But
do not confne yourself to any one place in order
10 view these falls; scramble everywhere you
can. and get rs many views as you can Of them,
and you will be unable To decide upon which is
the most besutiful. 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 pieco of rock
as you can hold. from your viewing place u
will be several seconds before you even lose
sight Of the piece of rock, and then even Il will
not have reached the water at the foot of the
chasm-it will only have been lost 10 human
sight; or watch the blue pigeons. wheeling
and circling in and out the Great Fall within
the chasm. and looking like sp1rrows in size in
the depth beneath you But you have yet only
seen one. aud 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 u
ferry. where the waters are still and smooth as
glass and sluggish as a Hollander. and proceed
10 the Mysore side of the falls, walking first to
a point where you will see them all at giance
and then descending as near as you can to the
spray, deafened by the noise and awe-struck
by tie grandeur of the scene. and by the pres
ence of the Creator of it, in the perpetual rain
bow Of many and brilliant hues, which spans
the foot of the obssm.