The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-02-10
The Falls of Niagara Surpassed in India.

Did any Of our readers ever hear of the
Giarsoppa Falls, near Honore? If not, they
will probably read with some pleasure de-
scri2tion which has just appeared in the Cal.
cutta papers. 1t is curious that fall six
times the depth of Niagara should remain
almost unknown. From the village of Giar-
soppa, reached by river of the same name,
the writer was carried for twelve miles up
the MalimuneE Pass, and reached the Falls
Bungalow about three hours and half after
leaving the top Of the pass an amphithea-
tire of woods, and river about FIVE hundred
yards wide, rushing and boiling to a certain
point, where it is lest in perpetual mist and
in an unceasing deafening roar, must first he
imagined. 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 tediou>ly over
slippery rocks until YOU reach point where
a rock about twice the size of mans body
juts out over precipice. Resting flat upon
this rock, and looking over it, you see direct
ly before you two out Of the four principal
falls; the 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 massi,ely and ap-
parently sluggishly into the chasm heiuw and
the other contains smaller body of water.
which shoots out in successive points If rocks
till it falls into the same ehasnl. 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 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 water.
of greater volume than the Rocket Fall,
rushing and s:eaming down iato the same
chasm; this is the third fall. the "Roarer -
Then. carrying your eye 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 a smooth surface
of polished rock into the same chasm this
is LA Dame Blanche" and the White Lady
Of .Avenel could not have been more grace
lu and ETHEREAL. But d, not continc your
self to any one place in order TO view these
falls scramble everywhere YOU Can, anI get
AS many views as you can OF them and you
will be unable 10 decide which is the most
beautiful.
And do you want to have faint idea of
the depth of the chasm into which these glo-
rious 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 vii! not have
reached the water at the foot of the chasm-
it will only have been lost to human sigh,
or watch the blue pigeons wheeling and Cir
cling in and out the great tall Within the
chasm, and looking like sparrows in size III
the depths beneath you. But you have We,
only seen one, and that not perhaps the love
iest, and at least not the most comprehcn-
sive, view of the falls. You must proceed
two miles up the river above the falls, and
cross over at ferry. where the waters ar,
still and smooth as glass and sluggish as
Hollander, and proceed to the Mysorc sid,
OF the falls, walking first to point wher.
you will see them all at a glance. and thel
descending as near as you can TO the foot of
these, to be drenched by the sprays. deaten
I'd by the noise and a~e-struck by the gran
deur Of the scene, and the presence of tn,
Creator Of il, in the perpetual rainbow OF
many and brilliant hues at the foo, of tn,
chasm.