lake gun JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER

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Book Review. THE LAKE GUN, by Cooper.

American Lit. SHort Story about a LaKE in Seneca New York that makes a mysterious Sound that nobody can account for. Deep, hollow, resembling the sound of a piece of heavy artillery . No satisfactory explanation. PLenty of local opinions, like compressed air escaping from a chasm. Theres also PALE FACES and RED FACES in the area. they have different ideass, like the lake is speaking to the hills. also the "The Swimming Seneca. .........a CURSED CHIEF...CURSED For a thousand winters he is to swim in the waters of this lake. Such is the tradition. Five hundred winters are gone by since he was thrown into the lake; five hundred more must come before he will sink. The curse of the Manitou is on him.

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The "Lake Gun" is a mystery. It is a sound resembling the explosion of a heavy piece of artillery, that can be accounted for by none of the known laws of nature. The report is deep, hollow, distant, and imposing. The lake seems to be speaking to the surrounding hills, which send back the echoes of its voice in accurate reply. No satisfactory theory has ever been broached to explain these noises. Conjectures have been hazarded about chasms, and the escape of compressed air by the sudden admission of water; but all this is talking at random, and has probably no foundation in truth. The most that can be said is, that such sounds are heard, though at long intervals, and that no one as yet has succeeded in ascertaining their cause.

a tree  floating above the water

wandering Jew tree

no

fishing law

for health of people

or health of fish

indian said I'll fish whenever the fuck I wanna