FALLS OF TALLULAH.
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. M.iIS ooe in Graham's Mngn zine for this month,
from ~ pretty engraving Of these Falls, which are
. ,ssd in Habersham County, Georgia.


~ Heo. know very extensivey that some OF the
,,ur,} uaulful scenery in the United States lies IN
'peedtb especially in the counties Of Haber'ham
in, Gimer. and others, ye. so it is, how.
Q Ar


"s = ecenery about mount Yonah. which is Bear
to bIosip, 90 called from its resemblance 10 tha,
Ill Gal and the river Terrora, Is indcscrlbably


hnd beautiful.


!" Falls Of Tallulah' are formed by the river
, tbt % which dashrs through crater.Iike chasm
70 Al 'hslf to shelf of the river rock. The sight


engraving reminds US Of description we
!. Tnsn lpped from gen.leman's manuscript, who


~ On an eye witness Of their wild beauty and
. bsive grandeur. No, having that copy BY
- will stale what we recolect Of his descrip.
49, yelling Eastward from Clarksville, village


ID in the most romantic part Of the Georgia


noains, you by degrees ascend rising SLOPE
a
a' piled heaps on heaps, which present to your
sns Saa shed and drinking vision a landscape most
.hjR ifcent; while the eyes are contemplating the
~. eous, grand and inexprcssibly wild picture
sur o. ehy mountains over which sail gently the
= vkv's scattered clouds towering above you in
D u you arc suddenly startled by On abruP.
= Using chasm into whose fearful depths you had
,fl - plunged yourself. You SEQ before and be-.
M ou mighty abyss-some four hundred yards


And perhaps six hundred deep. Down this
!, N pice the river rushes hoed!essly, and Us ii
~ ! over the several ledgcs Of rock that break
NJ swnward way, most beautiful rainbows spring


m the sun.giIded spray.


!. ne Rev. Adiel Sherwood, in his 'Gazeteer of


isasgia' makes the word 'Tullulah 10 signify
J nunder in the waters, bu: our narruto, was in.
HSgped by an intelligent Cherokee lady that Sher.
Ypsod's derivation is not authorized by any thing
= = - Cherokee tongue. She thought the word
: only he translated into English by this mea n
there lies your chId!' But she did not know
Z at definition was exactly literal. She attrb'
sho huIHo W buo CIRCUMSTANCES " SHhu 'o"'
) Pver the precipice, and hence the name Tai
= >


d hr narrator goes on with his description Of hi'
4 to the Falls.


= 10 passed down winding and perlou: path
: hng our why and securing our footsteps by the
: u trees which grow along the path, for sever
8 pndred feet until we had descended below mum.


N Of shelving rocks over which the stream leaps
~ pas aoout two O'Clock Of brgh! sunny day
ere we had passed half the descent the sun
wholly lost to OUR sight. md We appeared tc
@mid the twilight hues Of even. AT length
z 1gained table rock over which the wnter falls
PendicuIarly perhaps a hundred feet. Here


roots firmly sunk into the fssures of the


s. grew sundry cedar and sycamore trees.
water lashed into white foam, empties into


Dsp basin q mart Of which lies under tho tut.