The following is an excerpt from the Robert Kirk book
"Through So Many Dangers" (available in our bookstore
section) which describes Kirk’s experience at what the Indians called
“Ne-ah-ga”.
“The whole force of Lake Erie, drawn into the strictness of
a large river, formed a mass of water which falls 300 feet perpendicular;
we went through under the water to the other side quite dry. And
I can assure you, tho’ I have heard the thunder imitated in the
field, that it was no way comparable to the noise that this immense
body makes in it’s fall. You would not hear the report of a cannon,
was it fired at the bottom. I was absolutely deaf for 24 hours
after I had left”
- The memoirs and Adventures of Robert Kirk, Late of the Royal
Highland Regiment, Robert Kirkwood, Limerick, Ireland 1775.