THE 



AMERICAN 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 



Art. I. — Notice of the Tockoa and Tallulah FalU in Geor- 

 gia ;* by A. Foster. 



Communicated for this Journal. 



In a southern excursion during the autumn of 1827, 1 vis- 

 ited the Table Mountain in Pendleton, S. C. and the Toc- 

 koa and Tallulah Falls in Habersham, Ga. Those only 

 who have visited and contemplated this interesting section 

 of our country can justly appreciate the beauty and mag- 

 nificence, and the wildness and sublimity of the natural scene- 

 ry around the southern termination of the Blue Ridge. 



It is not now in my power to gratify the curiosity of my 

 northern friends, by describing every thing that delighted or 

 astonished our little party of travellers. But to the admi- 

 rer of his creator's works, never yet in their native richness 

 and variety, described by the geographer, sketched by the ar- 

 tist or sung by the poet, permit a traveller to recommend 

 an excursion, along the western and mountainous border of 

 North and South Carolina and Georgia. If you have im- 

 agined southern scenery to be tame and uniform, your disap- 

 pointment, like my own, will be most gratifying and complete. 

 A brief sketch of the two principal Falls is all that will at 

 this time be attempted. 



Tockoa Fall, is in a small creek of the same name, just be- 

 fore it runs into the Tugaloo, one hundred and fifty miles 



* To the Editor — This sketch was written for the gratification of my north- 

 ern friends. If they are pleased to learn that the section of our country so faint- 

 ly described in this sketch, presents scenery of the richest and most interesting 

 description, and if any of our travellers shoiddbe induced to visit the places, 

 and should find, as they must find, that " the half has not been told," they 

 will not regret, that I have communicated the annexed notice to your scien- 

 tific Journal. 



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