220 CATARACTS. 



Miles to the sea. 

 (1. Indus noO 



2. Jumna (to its junction with the Ganges 780 miles) 1500 



3. Sutledge (to the Indus 900) 1400 



4. Jhylum (ditto 750) 1250 



5. Gunduck (to the Ganges 450) 980 



6. Godavery 850 



7. Krishna 700 



8. Nerbudda 700 



9. Mahanuddy 550 



10. Tuptee 460 



11. Cavery 400 



CAT.<RACTS. 



The Ganges, Indus, and Brahmapoutra, during their 

 course among the mountains, exhibit cascades hitherto but 

 imperfectly described. Some very splendid and beautiful 

 waterfalls are met with in the peninsula ; the most consid- 

 erable are those of Bundelcund, of the Western Ghauts, 

 and of the River Cavery. 



Falls in Bundelcund. — The only account we have met 

 with of these magnificent falls is given by Captain Frank- 

 lin. He visited all that are between the Katra pass and 

 the Tonse river. The first is near the village of Bilohi, 

 about twelve miles west from the pass of Katra, where the 

 fall of water is 398 feet, and the rocky wall of red sand- 

 stone over which it is precipitated nearly perpendicular. 

 Ten miles farther west is the cataract of Bouti, 400 feet 

 in height, which is very picturesque, owing to the great 

 extent of the circus over which it falls. At Keuti, twenty- 

 four miles farther west, is another fall 272 feet in height ; 

 and westward still, at Chachai, one 3G2 feet high. At a 

 short distance from Chachai is the cataract of the Tonse, 

 where the volume of water is greater than in the others, 

 but the fall less, being only 200 feet. 



Many of the waterfalls in the Western Ghauts, although 

 exhibiting magnificent scenes during the rains, are com- 

 pletely dried up in the hot season. There are many fine 

 cascades in the Ghauts above Honoor, which for sublimity 

 and magnitude will probably yield to few in the world. 

 They have hitherto been little visited, even by Europeans 

 in India ; and it is, we believe, only within the last ten or 

 twelve years that they have received a name. They are 

 situated on the river Shor\'atty, about fifteen miles up the 



