Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-13
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THE NIAGARA OF INDIA.

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depth of Niagara should remain almost un-
known. From the village of Gairsoppa,
reached by river of the same name, the
writer of the following account was carried
for twelve miles up the Malimuueh Pass,
and reached the Falls Bungalow about
three and half hours after leaving the Pass
An amphitheatre of woods and river,
about 500 yards wide, rushing and boiling
to a certain point, where it is lost in per.
petual mist and in an unceasiug, deafening
roar, must first be imagined. Leaving the
Bungalow on the Madras side ofthe 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 over precipice.
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 Fall and the Rocket -
The one contains large body of water,
the main body Of the river, perhaps fifty
yards across, which falls massively and ap-
parently 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 it falls
into the same chasm. This chasm is at
least 900 feet in depth, six times the depth
Of the Niagara Falls, which are about $50
feet, and perhaps quarter to mile in
width These are the first two falls to be
visited. Then move little below your first
position and you will observe first, turgid,
boiling body of water of greater volume than
the Rocket Fall, rushing and streaming
down into the same chasm this is the third
fall, the 'Roarer;' and then, carrying your
eye little further down, you will observe
another fall, the lovliest, softest and most
graceful of all, beings a broad expanse of
shallow water, falling like transparent sill
yer lace over smooth surface of polished
rock into this same chasm. This is LA
Dame Blanche and the White Lady of
Ayenel could not have been more graceful
and ETHEREAL.
But do not couine yourself to any one
place in order to viewing these Falls; scram-
BILE everywhere you can, and gets as many
views as you can of them, and you will be
enabled to decide up which is the most
beautiful And do you want to have 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
loose sight of the rock, and even then twill
not have reached the water at the foot Of
the chasm, it will not only have been lost
to human sight; or watch the pigeons,
wheeling AMI 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 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 II
ferry, where the waters are still and smooth
as glass and luggisb as Hollauder, 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 ofthese, to be
drenched by the spray, deafened by the
noise and awe-struck by the grandeur Of
the scene and by the visible presence Of
the Creator of it, in the perpetual rainbow
of many and brilliant hues which spans
the foot of the chasm.