Gallipolis Journal

Niagara Falls A Non-entity.--It is very surprising, says a late writer, that two of the greatest natural curiosities in the world are in the United States, and scarcely known to the best informed of our geographers and naturalist. The one is a beautiful fall in Franklin, Habersham county, Ga., the other a stupendous precipice in Pendleton district. S. C.; they are both faintly mentioned in the late edition of Morse's Geography, but not as they merit. The Toccoa fall is much higher than the Niagara. The column of water is propelled beautifully over a perpendicular rock, and when the stream is full it passes down without being broken. All the prismatic effect seen at Niagara illustrates the spray of Toccoa. The table mountain in Pendleton district is an awful precipice of nine hundred feet. Many persons reside within five, seven or ten miles of this grand spectacle, who never had the curiosity to visit it. It is now visited by curious travelers, and sometimes by men of science.