Falls of the Jumna
July 4, 1836
Mohammed Abdulkarim
Scenery and Places
Bahadur Shah II
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The glen of tbe Jumna—a deep and winding valley, sunk amidst a most chaotic confusion of mountains—is inconceivably wild and grand throughout the whole of its course to the plains. In many places the river struggles through narrow passages, formed by the augles which project into its bed ; and the torrent, when circumscribed in places scarcely twenty feet wide, boils and foams so fearfully, that to gaze upon it causes the brain to whirl, and sight and sense would probably fail if contemplated for many minutes without strong assurance of security. A remarkable fall of the river is shown ill the accompanying sketch, at a short distance below its source, near tbe point at which it receives a very considerable tributary stream. The latter may be traced to its moun¬ tain birthplace, winding over the rocky platform in graceful, noiseless undulations; its gentle murmurings, together with those of other rivulets speeding to the same point, being lost in the roar of tbe Jumna, which comes raging and thundering onwards, until it falls with prodigious force into a basin it has formed in the solid rock, whence it again springs in a sea of foam, and pursues its turbulent course towards tlie plains, first precipitating its raging torrent down an abyss that yawns fright- | fully below.
The-Jumna flows in a southerly direction through the province of Gurhwal, where, at Kalsee GhaUt> in 30° 30' N. lat, it is joined by the Tonse; which latter, though a much more considerable stream, loses its name at the point of junction* Notwith¬ standing the rocks and rapids that impede the course of these rivers, it has been considered possible that timber might be floated down them; an undertaking which, if accomplished, would render the hills immensely profitable to the government or la private speculators, since the surrounding regions are, ill many places, so thickly covered, that one single square mile might furnish timber for a navy j and the growth of an entire mountain, would, it is asserted, suffice for all the navies in the world.
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