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The terms "mistpouffers" and "Seneca guns" both originate in Seneca Lake, New York, and refer to the rumble of artillery fire. James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans, wrote "The Lake Gun" in 1850, a short story describing the phenomenon heard at Seneca Lake, which seems to have popularized the terms.
"The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1850. [1] The short story was commissioned by George E. Wood for $100, and published in a miscellany titled The Parthenon . [ 1 ]
Cayuga Lake, like nearby Seneca Lake, is also the site of a phenomenon known as the Guns of the Seneca, mysterious cannon-like booms heard in the surrounding area. Many of these booms may be attributable to bird-scarers , automated cannon-like devices used by farmers to scare birds away from the many vineyards, orchards and crops.
Seneca Lake is the largest of the glacial Finger Lakes of the U.S. state of New York, ... They are known locally as the Seneca Guns, Lake Drums, or Lake Guns, ...
USS Seneca was a Unadilla-class gunboat built on behalf of the United States Navy for service during the American Civil War. Seneca was outfitted with guns for horizontal fire as well as with two howitzers for bombardment of shore targets.
The former Seneca Army Depot occupied 10,587 acres (4,284 ha) between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in Seneca County, New York. It was used as a munitions storage and disposal facility by the United States Army from 1941 until the 1990s.
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Barisal guns or fog guns (mistpoeffers (fog dissipators) in Belgium and Netherlands, Seeschießen (sea/lake gunshots) in Germany, brontidi (thunder-alike) or baturlio marinas in Italy) [1] are a series of loud booms heard near the Barisal region of Bangladesh in the 19th century. [2] [3] There are various theories about the origin of the sound.