Litchfield enquirer., 1860-01-19
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I The FALLS OF NIAGARA SURPASSED IN
INDIA.--Did any of our readers ever hear Of
the Gairsoppa Falls near Honore If not,
they will probably read with some pleasure
q description which has just appeared in
the Calcutta papers. 1t is curious that q
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 twelve
miles up the Malimunch Pass, and reached
the Falls Bungalow about three hours and o
half after leaving the top of the Pass
An amphtheatre of woods and q river
about five hundred yards wide, rushing and
boiling to certain point, where it is lost
in perpetuated mist and in an unceasing
deafenng roar, must be first imagined. Lea
wing the Bungalow on the Madras side Of
the river, and descending to position be-
low 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 mans body juts over q
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 Falr' and the
" Rocket" The one contains large body
of water, the main body of the river, per-
haps fifty yards across, which falls massive
y 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 it
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 deep, and
perhaps quarter to half 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 steaming down
into the same chasm this is the third fall,
the "Roarer." Then, carrying your eye q
little further down, you will observe another
fall, the loveliest, softest, and most graceful
of all, being broad expanse of shallow wa.
ter falling like transparent silver lace over O
smooth surface of polished rock, into this
same chasm !; this is La Dame Blanche"
and the White Lady of Avenel could not
have been more graceful and ethereal. But
do not confne yourself to any one place in
order to view these falls scramble every
where you can, and get as many views ns
you can Of them, and you will be unable to
decide upon which is the most beautiful
And do you want to have faint idea of the
depth of the chasm into which these glori-
GUS waters fall ? Take out your watch and
drop as large a piece Of rock as You can
hold, from your viewing place it will be
several seconds before you can even lose
sight of the piece of rock, and then even it
will not have reached the water at the foot
of the charm--it will only have been lost to
human sight I; or watch the blue pigeons.
wheeling and circling in and out Of the
Great Fall within the chasm, and looking
like sparrows in size in the depths beneath
you. But You have not yet seen only one,
and that not perhaps the loftiest, 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 Q
ferry, where the waters are still and smooth
as glass and sluggish as Hollander, and
proceed to the Mysore side of the falls,
walking first to point where you win sec
them at glance, and then descending na
near as you can to the foot of them, to be
drenched by the spray, deafened By the
noise and aWerstruck by the grandeur Of the
scene, and by the presence of the Creator O
it, in the perpetual rainbow Of many and bril-
liant hues which spans the foot Of the ehasul-