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CATABACTS AHD CASCADE*’ 
TH® TOCCOA FALL. 
This fall, in Franklin County, Georgia, i* ^ ^ , 
known to the best informed of our geograpbe 
withstanding one of the most beautiful th? . 
ceived. It is much higher than the great tai 
and the water is charmingly propelled over a V iJ 
rock. When the stream is full, it passes “O 
in one expansive sheet magnificent to behold- 
FALLS OF THE MISSOURI- 
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. The most prominent features of tliis , f 
which is fed by so many streams, having 
great variety of soils and climates, are its ' (gj 
rapids, and cascades, the following 
which is abstracted from the very accura j 
survey made by Captain Clarke. gjnt f. 
This river is nine hundred feet wide dt “lyjj fay, 
receives tlie waters of Medicine river, 
dred and one feet in width. The united 
five thousand four hundred and twelve feet, s 
than a mile, to a small rapid on the north si ^ fe ^ 
it gradually widens to four thousand two hu 
at the distance of nine thousand and forty-' , m A 
it the distance ot nine tnousano ana w"-/ c tn*’ fjt, 
a mile and three-fourths) reaches the 
narrowing as it approaches them. Here m 
north, which had withdrawn from the bans 
over the rocks with a descent of thirty f^f • 
the current is contracted to sixteen 
and, after throwing itself over a small pitch o . ‘ # 
a beautiful cascade of twenty-six feet five >0 
not, however, fall immediately perpendicih 
ped by a part of the rock, which projects a 
of the distance. After descending this fahi fi-w ii^ . 
Cotton- wood island, on which the eagle hi^ 
the river goes on for eight thousand y' . 
seventy-eight feet (more than a mile and a b* 
and little falls, the estimated descent of y' 
six inches, till it is joined by a large fo ^ fi 
underneath the rocks near the edge or 
