Show FAR LARGER THAN NIAGARA I Iguazu Falls Are Easily the Greatest In the World I Larger than Niagara Is tho cataract of the Iguazu falls almost at tho intersection in-tersection of tho three frontiers of Paraguay Brazil and tho Argentine republic re-public The river takes Its name from a Spanish word meaning great waters About 12 miles from Its mouth the bed drops suddenly down a rocky perpendicular per-pendicular cliff some 213 feet high hence there Is a waterfall of that great height At this spot a delightful delight-ful little Island beautiful with vegetation vege-tation divides tho river into two arms so that tho total width is about two miles and a half The Brazilian arm or the river forms a tremendous horseshoe horse-shoe hero and plunges Into a great chasm with a deafening roar while tho Argentine side spreads out In a sort of amphitheater form and finishes with one grand leap a little over 229 feet Below tho island the two arms unite and flow on into the Parana river From the Brazilian bank the spectator at a height of 280 feet gazes out over two and a half miles of some of the wildest and most fantastic water scenery scen-ery ho can ever hope to see Waters stream seethe leap bound froth and foam throwing the sweat of agony high In the air and writhing twisting screaming and moaning bear oft to tho Parana Under the blue vault of the sky this sea of foam of pearls of Iridescent dust bathos the great background In a shower of beau ty that all tho more adds to tho riot of tropical hues already there When a high wind Is blowing the roar of the cataract can bo heard nearly 20 miles away A rough estimate of the horse power represented by tho falls places it at 14000000 Few sightseers over catch a glimpse i of tho great Iguazu fulls because it takes six days to make the picturesque Journey of about 1250 miles from Buenos Aires amid the fair fertile plains of Santa Fe and the savage luxuriance of the virgin forest passing through tho territory of the missions and the ruins of Jesuit churches and convents |