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Account of the Great Waterfalls of Rewah. 
These facts shew the necessity of examining whether the brass 
of which delicate instruments are to be made is magnetic ; and 
if you think these observations worthy of further publicity, they 
are at your service. I remain, Dear Sir, yours truly, 
Liverpool, ) J. Bywater. 
Jan. 8. 1822. f 
Art. XIV . — Accoun t of the Great Waterfalls o f Rewali *. 
Having encamped for the night at Gungeoh, we marched 
the next morning to Kaioutee, where the first of the Falls is si- 
tuated, about 9 miles from our former Camp, travelling in a 
westerly direction through a level and well cultivated country. 
Nothing is either heard or seen of the Fall, till you approach 
within a few hundred yards, when all at once a deep and preci- 
pitous chasm in the earth is presented to the eye, and the roar- 
ing of water announces it to be near at hand. On advancing 
by the south side of the stream, which forms the cascade, and is 
called the Mahanuddy, a spectator is compelled to cross, so as 
to obtain a complete and perfect view of the fall, which flows 
into a circular bason, projecting inwards, and forming a kind of 
dock, from which the water empties itself at the farther end. 
The opposite side of the pool is the best place to view it ; its 
bank being considerably raised above the top of the fall, com- 
mands a fine and extensive prospect of the scenery, above, be- 
low, and around. On a rising ground, covered with jungle, si- 
tuated between the Mahanuddy and a dry dell, which, during 
the rains, the natives say is filled with water, stands a Hindoo 
temple, conspicuous neither for neatness nor elegance of architec- 
ture, but plain and dirty in the extreme. 
This hillock, during the months of July and August, is an 
island, being surrounded on three sides by a torrent of water, 
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* These stupendous waterfalls are on the rivers Mahanuddy, Behur and Touse, 
in the province of Gundwana. The following account of them, drawn up by an 
Officer of the 8th Light Cavalry, is abridged from the Calcutta Journal of the 17th 
January 1822. 
