Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-22

THE FALLS OF THE NIAGARA SURPASSED IN INDIA
Did any Of our readers ever hear Of the Gairsop-
pa sails, near Honore? If not they viii probably
read with some pleasure a description which has
just appeared in the Calcutta papers Il is curious
that fall six times the depth of Niagara should re-
main almost unknown. From the village of Gair-
soppa, reached by river of the same name. the
writer was carried for twelve miles up the MaIimu-
neh Pass, and reached the Falls Bungalow about
three hours and half after leaving the Pass An
amphitheatre of woods and a river about five hun
dred yards wide; rushing and boiling to a certain
point where it is lost in perpetual mist and in an
unceasIng deafening roar, must first be imagined
Leaving the bungalow the Madras side of the ry-
err and descending to position below the river level
you work your way up carefully and tediously over
slippery rocks, until you reach point where 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 of the four
principal falls ; those two are called the Great
tall' 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 appar
entity suggishly into the chasm below, and the 9TH
er contains smaller body Of water. which shoots
out in successive sprays over successive points Of
rocks till It tals into the same chasm. This chasm
IS at least nine hundred feet in dept-sx times the
depth of the Niagara Falls. which are about one
hundred and fifty feet. and perhaps quarter 10 4
half mile in width. These the first two falls to
be visited Then move a little below your trs6 po-
siCion, and yOu will observe first a turgid boiling
body Of water Of greater volume than the Rocket
Fall, rushing and steaming down into the same
chasm; this is the third fall, the R3arer." Then.
carrying your eye a little further down, you will
observe another fall the oveliest. softest and most
graceful Of all. being broad expanse Of shallow
water falling like transparent silver lace over
smooth surface of polished rock into this same
Chasm; this is La Dame Blanche" and the White
Lady of AveHel could not have been more graceful
and ethereal And do You want feint idea Of the
depth of the cEasm into which these glorious waters
fall? Take out your watch and drop as large a
piece Of rock as you can hold. from your viewing
place it viii be several seconds before you even
lose sightOf the piece Of rock and then 1t VIII not
have reached the water at the foot Of the chasm-
ii Will only have been lost to human sight. But
you have yet only seen one, and that not perhaps
the oveIest, and at least not the most comprehen-
sive view of the falls Pass to the Mysore side Of
the falls. walking first to point where you will see
them all at a glance and then descending as near as
you to the foot Of these, to be drenched by the
spray. deafened by the noise, and awe-strUek 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.