| Show falls of niagara surpassed in india did any of our readers ever hear bear of f timm time falls fals near honore it if not they will probably read with some bome pleasure a description I 1 crip tion which hs h s just appeared in the calcutta papers it is ia curious that a fall six times th the e depth of should remain al most unknown from the village of gair oppa reached by a river of the same name the writer was carried for twelve miles up the Mali mail munch pass and reached the fails faila i bun Bur bungalow galow about three hours and a half after ica leaving vig vi g th the e top of the pass an amphitheatre of moods woods od and nd A river bout about as five hundred yards 1 i ide rush ng and boiling to 0 o a certain point i 1 where itis it is lost in a perpetual mist and aud in aa i unceasing deafening roar must first be imagined ag ined leaving the B on the madl ras side tf it the river and descending to a po bi afon tion below the river level levei you work your way up carefully and end ted bously over slippery rocks until you reach a pont where a rock about twice the size of a mans body juts out over a precipice rest rig ng sat flat upon the rock I 1 and lookin looking gover over it you see directly before I 1 you two out of the four principal falls ails f these two are called the great fall fali and the rocket the one contains a large body bodao of water the main body of the river perhaps fifty yards across w which h ich fa falls falis 1 I 1 3 massively and I 1 apparently sluggishly into the chasm belows below belew and the other contains a smaller bodiot water which shoots ent ont ut in successive points of rocks tillit till it falls in ino 0 he same chasm r this chasm is atlease at least nine hundred feenin depth six times the be of niagara tall tail i which are about one hundred and fifty feet f and perhaps a quarter to hait hair a mile in width these are the first two falls to be visited tei tet i i then move a little litile below your first position and i yott on will t observe first a turbino turbid b 6 body of water of greater volume than ible b i i rocket fall rushing and steaming downin i the same chasm this is 1 the third fall the then carry ng rig your eye a bittle f urther further down you will observe another fall fan the th 0 loveliest toft softest est and mot mo it graceful gracea grace fil 0 of au 0 belne beine a broad expanse of shallow water falling I 1 like ike transparent tan silver jaee oyer oter a smooth sulfa bulfa surface e of polished rock into the he same chaim chalm this is la dame blanche and the white lad lady y of avenel could not have been mere were graceful and ethereal ech erea but do not confine confide yourself to any one place in erder to yiew these falls scramble every where you can I 1 and get as many views vie s as you can of wim them I 1 and you will be unable to decide upon ich is the most beautiful I 1 I 1 and ami do yi yu yuwano u wand want to 10 have a faint idea ot of the depth of the chasm into which these glorious waters tall fall take out your yo ur watch ay ar 4 drop as large a piece of rock as you can caa J hold from your viewing place it will be several everal seconds before you even lose sight of the piece of rock and then even it will not have reached the water at the fostof foot of the chasm it will only have been lost to human sigh sight or watch the be blue pigeons wheeling and circling in and out of the great fall within the chasm and looking like sparrows in size in the depths deeths I 1 beneath you but you have yet only seen one and that not perhaps the loveliest and at least not the most comprehensive view of rif the tho falls you must proceed two miles up the river above the falls and cross over at afe a ferry where the waters are still and smooth as glass and slag gish as a hollander and proceed 1 to the mysore side of the falls falis walking 4 first to a point where you will see them at ft glance and ana then descend as near as you can car to the foot of the e to be dren drenched ched chei by the abray spray deafened by byth the noise and awe struck by the tie tte grandieri grandi grandl eur eui eul of the scene sceney and by tha tha presence of the C cator of 0 it in the perpetual rainbow of many and brilliant hues which which spans the foot of the chasm I 1 |
