The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-10-31
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The fallaey n LyeIrs gusss Al ths
rate oi recession was alwsys plain n We
referred b. The first accurate secount,
hat n lhs Swedish traveller Kslm. 10
DENT Nag, January, i77si since which
The gorge has both bsen enlarged full
100 aeres and had miles of Iis bed
ieepened many feet Imp. 10, col. I. A.
he said Canoes can 20 yet half
Ieagus above the beginning u tho car.
fyIng place. but higher up II
Is quite impossible. the whole course
u the watef, for two leagues and hall
up TO the great fall. being sriss d
smaller fiif,, on, under another" Nov
plainly this whole series have 20 levelled
their bed that the main falls now dc.
scend some 100 feet instead of tho "iS7
feet. that he repeatedly maintained
(col. 2. NJ TO be the utmost the engi.
neerr, with mathematical instru.
ments." then admitted. But as Tor the
plan, he Is yet more definite. r. 10.
col. ]. v; THE river Tor rather stralt)
runs hers from south-southeast 10 north
northwest, and the rock OF the great fall
srosscsit not In a right line, but forming
almost the figure of scmlcircle OF
horseshoe" Prefessor Tyndall has
well remarked that the upper stream
having probably been always much
wider than the gorge, the chief fall.
has always been concave; but kalm's
view makes II appear very slightly so.
and we know that very fiat egmenu
are, by perspective Illusion, commonly
thought semicircles or even 'horse.
shoes.") "Abovo the fall In the middle
Of the river, Is nm island, lying also
south-southeast and north.northwest. OF
parallel with the sides Of the river; its
length Is about or French arpcnts Gan
arpent being 100 feet) The lower end Of
this island Is Just at tho perpendicular
edge Of the fall" He proceeds 10 tell
how this island, once thought inacccssh
BILE. had been the scene Of the heroic res.
cue, twelve years before. Of two indiana
by two Others. Then p. iS.col. 2, +. "Ths
breadth Of the fall, as II runs In semi
circle, is reckoned about six arpents.
The island Is In tho middle Of the fall,
and from II TO each side Is almost the
same breadth" (barely $50 feet then.
but IN his engraving not half thaD. "Ths
breadth OF the island at its lower end d
two-thirds Of an.arpent or thereabouts.
His view makes Il but one-third the
height. I. g., ons-third OF "l37 feet"
Now this mere reef, about 900 feet BY
ess than 10, was plainly one whoss
length the falls were reducing. Il
there tho least ground for holding they
have ever reduced Goat Island (now ten
Zines larger than thaD or will reduce II
one roodP But, prolong Luna Islet,"
north-northwest till 800 feet long. and
you will have the site, submit, Of
kalm's middle rock, barely $50 feet
from the point Mr.. Wcsson marks, on
Pix. 2. "New York Shore" " aud about
as much from Canadian point west
southwest Of II. As for Goat Island, II
cannot. In his time, have yet been touch.
cd by the falls. but may be one Of thos>
ihn'u,ntrphod bah i'pc' ''w'wtaf pieaws
on this last survey that the amount oi
gorge excavated since 1880 should b
movable 10 an acre. Ths west fall,
then. only slightly the larger, has ever
since been widening, lowering its edge,
and getting more Of tho stream; so that
the east one. comparatively stationary.
retaining lis height snA decreasing 10
volume. must dry up. and It's bed and
all the isles become part Of New York
State.--E. l.. Garben. m Mature,