Identifier: greatestwonderso00sing (find matches)
Title: Greatest wonders of the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders Landscapes
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the BombayPresidency. The source of the river is in Mysore, half-way up Koda Chadri, a hill about five thousand feet high,near the famous old town of Nuggur, once the seat of theRajahs of Mysore, where are still to be seen the ruins of anold fort and palace, and the walls of the town, eight milesin circumference. The natives have a legend that the god Rama shot anarrow from his bow on to Koda Chadri, and that the riversprang from the spot where the arrow fell, and hence thename Siruvatti or arrow-born. From its source the riverflows north for nearly thirty miles through the heart of theWestern Ghauts, and then turns west and flows downthrough the jungles of North Canara to the Indian Ocean—another thirty miles. Shortly after taking the bend west-wards there comes the fall, which, on account of its height,is worthy of being reckoned amongst the great waterfalls ofthe world. Here, at one leap, the river falls eight hundredand thirty feet; and as, at the brink, it is about four hundred
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TtFrsoppa falls. GERSOPPA FALLS 249 yards wide, there are few, if any, falls in the world tomatch it. During the dry weather the river comes over in fourseparate falls, but in the height of the monsoon these be-come one, and as at that time the water is nearly thirty feetdeep, the sight must be truly one of the worlds wonders.It has been calculated that in flood-time more horse-poweris developed by the Gersoppa Falls than by Niagara. Thisof course is from the much greater height of Gersoppa, eighthundred and thirty feet against about one hundred and sixtyfeet of Niagara, although the Niagara Falls are much widerand vaster in volume. The Kaieteur Falls of the Esse-quibo in British Guiana are seven hundred and forty-onefeet sheer and eighty-eight more of sloping cataract, but theriver there is only one hundred yards wide. At the VictoriaFalls, the Zambesi, one thousand yards wide, falls into anabyss four hundred feet deep. My friend and I visited the falls in the end of September,about

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