. The falls of Niagara . ectacle. A second cataract is formed by the southern arm of theCavery about a mile below. The channel here spreadsout into a magnificent expanse, which is divided into noless than ten distinct torrents, which fall with infinite varietyof configuration over a precipice of more than one hun-dred feet, but presenting no single body equal to theGungani Chuki, but the whole forming an amphitheatre12 178 NIAGARA. of cataracts, meeting the eye in every direction along asweep of perhaps 90°, and combined with scenery of suchsequestered wildness that for picturesque effect it i
. The falls of Niagara . ectacle. A second cataract is formed by the southern arm of theCavery about a mile below. The channel here spreadsout into a magnificent expanse, which is divided into noless than ten distinct torrents, which fall with infinite varietyof configuration over a precipice of more than one hun-dred feet, but presenting no single body equal to theGungani Chuki, but the whole forming an amphitheatre12 178 NIAGARA. of cataracts, meeting the eye in every direction along asweep of perhaps 90°, and combined with scenery of suchsequestered wildness that for picturesque effect it is perhapswithout parallel in the world. This branch of the streamis used to irrigate the province of Tanjore, and the com-ing of its floods is celebrated by the natives with specialfestivities, as they consider the river to be one of their mostbeneficent deities. The beautiful and picturesque fall of the Rhine belowSchaffhausen, where the water falls sixty-five feet in asingle column, is the admiration of all CHAPTER XXI. Famous Rapids and Cascades — Niagara — Amazon — Orinoco—Parana—Nile — Livingstone. TN all its features and characteristics the great water-^ course, including the great lakes, which feeds theNiagara, is peculiar and interesting. It is more thantwo thousand miles long; its utmost surface-sourcesare scarcely six hundred feet above tide-water; itsbottom, at its greater depth, is more than four hundredfeet below tide-water. In all its course it receives less thantwo score of affluents, and only two of these, the St. Mau-rice and the Saugeen, bring to it any considerable quantityof water, and no flood in any of them discolors its emeraldsurface from shore to shore. Only fierce gales of windbring up from its own depths the sediment that can dis-color its whole face. Far the greater portion of its water-supply is drawn from countless hidden springs, lyingdeep in the bosom of the earth. In all the elements ofbeautiful, picturesque, and enchant
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