Yours, Nc.

 GEORGE CATLlN.

NATIONAL WONDERS.
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It is very surprising, that TWO of the greatest natural curiosities in the world, are within the United States, and yet scarcely known to the best informed of our geographers and naturalists. The one q beautiful waterfall, in Franklin county, Georgia; the other stupen- dous precipice in Pendleton district, South-CaroIina. They are both faintly mentioned in the late edition of Morse $ geography, but not as they merit. The ruccoa falls is much higher than the fallsof Niagara. The column of water is propelled beautifully over q perpen

 dicular rock, and when the stream is full, il passes down without being bro. ken. Ali.ihe prsmatic effect, seen al Niagara, illustrates the spray of Tue. coa. The Table mountain IS an awful precipice Of 5000 feet. Many persons reside within five, seven, or ten miles O

 this grand spectacle, who have neyel had curiosity or taste enough 10 visit if

 It is now. however, occasionally visited by curious travellers, and sometime, by men of science. Very few person

 who have once caught glimpse int, the almost boundless abyss, can agail exercise sufficient fortitude to approac1 the margin in the chasm. Almost eve " one, in looking over, inyoluntaril

 falls to the ground senseless, nerveles. and helpless, and would inevitably b

 precipitated and dashed to atoms, wer

 it not for measures of caution and sccu