214 Notice of the Tockoa and Tallulah Falls. 



The effect from the top of the Table Rock is one unmixed 

 overwhelming sensation of the sublime. As the spectator 

 walks along the edge of the sloping precipice for a third of 

 a mile, his mind demands time for expansion to receive the 

 full influence of its new situation. This is accomplished by 

 fixing the attention upon each object separately, — the falls of 

 Slicking before him — the plantations below him — the moun- 

 tains around him and the broad bosom of the forest spreading 

 every way : — but the effect of the precipice under him pre- 

 vails over all other emotions. As the spectator walks half a 

 mile under the precipice, the height of which is at this dis- 

 tance about seven hundred and thirty feet, and the base of 

 which contains a narrow path, midway between the summit 

 and base of the mountain, a variety of emotions is enjoyed 

 too complex to be definitely described. Objects pleasing, 

 novel, beautiful and sublime, are every moment demanding 

 his attention. On the summit his countenance is grave, his 

 words few, and his imagination strongly excited. At the 

 base his countenance is lighted up, and his conversation ani- 

 mated and brilliant. For his visit to the summit he feels re- 

 warded, and his mind has expanded. With his visit to the 

 base he is more than satisfied ; he is delighted ; his feelings 

 have been kindled — the company are endeared to him, and 

 on retiring he says, "no day of my life has passed more 

 agreeably or more profitably. ,, The best judges, however, 

 unanimously express a preference for the Rapids of Tallulah. 

 As at the Table Mountain, so also two days at least should 

 be devoted to the Rapids. 



Mud Creek Fall is twenty five miles north of Tallulah. I 

 did not visit it, but was informed that the whole fall of this 

 cataract is two hundred and eighty feet ; that it is in a large 

 creek, and the effect eminently interesting. 



The Currihee Mountain, one mile from the Tockoa Fall, 

 affords a rich reward for the toil of gaining its summit. On 

 the north is a view of the Blue Ridge, surpassed in its pros- 

 pect of " mountains piled on mountains," perhaps by no oth- 

 er site in the United States. On the south, Georgia and 

 South Carolina, with the exception of a few plantations on 

 the Tugaloo, present one unbroken forest as far as the sight 

 extends. As you traverse this forest you will sometimes see 

 splendid situations insulated from the rest of the world, in 

 the fertile vallies, surrounded by the conveniences, the ele- 

 gancies, and the domestic refinements of social life. The 



