“Nous vimes l’endroit qu’on appelle le grand Sault Saint Jean-Baptiste, ou la riviere de Saint Jean faisant du haut d’un rocher fort eleve une terrible cascade dans un abime, forme un brouillard qui derobe l’eau a la veue, et fait un bruit qui avertit de loin les navigateurs de descendre de leurs canots.”
This war broke out in 1675 and was confined chiefly to the tribes of Massachusetts. It was of short duration; the Indian Sagamore Philip was slain.
The route was up the St. John to the Medoctec village, thence by Eel river and the chain of lakes to the Mattawamkeag and down that river to the Penobscot.
These canoes were probably lying in the cove at Indiantown just above the falls.
The author is indebted to Dr. W. F. Ganong for his kindness in furnishing the sketch from which the accompanying plan of illustration has been made. It is not, of course, a copy of the original, but gives an idea of the general character of the fortification.