The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-09-21
VICTORIA FALLS.
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In the EyOE1d.
There Is a tine description q Vic
torfa fails In the Zambezi river In E.
r. knights South Africa After the
war" Tie author says: The nature
OF the extraordinary volcanic leisure
that created the fails cannot easily pc
realized without reference to map,
but at the point under consideration
the mighty Zambed lows roughly,
from north to south. At about half
a mile above the falls the river Is
milo and a half in breadth Then Il
contracts. and the breadth at the fails
themselves Is a little over mile, or,
10 he exact. 1885 yards. And here,
10 one looking over the edge, the great
river seems suddenly to come to an
end. no continuation of its channei
being Fisible. The Zambezt Tor lts
whole mile Of breadth thunders down
precipitousIy into comparatively mar
row. profound trench or canyon, Which
extends at right angles to the rtVers
course from shore to shore. BEYOND
the fnIIs one Is faced by the perpen-
diculnr wall of the canyon. Below t tile
uadly NhIrlinR spray obScunes the
lev Of the bottom OF the canyon,
and 81 seeE.S as IL the whole mighty
aooi were falling into the center OF
the earth through this awful chasm-
Esrt the river has its exit, precp-
itous cleft, only ten yards In breadth,
pear the eastern end OF the canyon.
through which the whole OF the CON
trncteSi Zambezi rnshes with incred-
Ible speed, fury and confusion, FORM
ing at this point what is called the
Boiling Pot, surely one of this eartn s
most terrific scenes.
81 believe" the author adds, that on
that day / was gazing at the most per
fectly beautiful spectacle of all this
beautiful world. It was the lovely
tenderness of the rich coloring, Dathed
| In that translucent atmosphere OF thin,
pearIy haze, rather than the awful
majesty of the scene that impressed
one. At our feet. far below, the rag
| ing flood Numbered away down the
| CANYON to the. exit In the misty dis
lance. On our left the line OF the cata-
| ract. pIunging into the swirling spray
beneath, was clearly visible FOR some
| yyay out with its white avalanches and
coruscating spray, and then gradually
| became less distinct in the thin haze
until ut last far or beyond Livingstone
/ island it disappeared from our vision
in the luminous pearl-nke mist that
formed the background to all the land
ION our right, facing the cataract
doomed the 500 foot high wall of the
canyon, topped by the lush green Rain
forest with It's ever dripping branches
| And as we looked new wonders be
| cane gradually revealed to our won
derinR gaze. began to perceive IL
hooks of the black preciptnes hafVSaJ
down strange plants growing, as II
| happy confidence their fragile rainbow
| hued blossoms ever shaking In the
wind and driving spray, but safe ant
! unframed amid this eternal STORM
And down the black cIfn wall on my
right saw hundreds OF tiny Whit
streamlets pouring, formed by the re
turning spray from the Rain forest
i And as watched them discovered
strange thing.
'sThese falling streams never reached
the bottom of the chnsm. They droppet
into little cascades to about third o
the way down, and then as If defyini
the laws of gravity, they literally turn
ed round and came back again, mount
ing vertically. 1t was curious to SCI
these cascades, after breaking Int
spray, appear to hesitate and fate
and then begin to rise, first slowly, ou
soon rapidly, shooting upward in whi'a
ing foam columns and feathery foun
tains, being carried up by the htu
blasts of cold air that the dropping cat
nrnct forced out of the narrow chasn
into which it Numbered"
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