=B.= THE WAR IN MAINE AND ACADIA.—The revolution which deposed Andros in Boston was also the occasion of withdrawing the garrisons from the English posts toward Acadia; and this invited in turn the onsets of the enemy. It was calculated in 1690 that there were between Boston and Canso four thousand two hundred and ten Indians,—a census destined to be diminished, indeed, so that in 1726 the savages were only rated for the same territory at five hundred and six (_N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._, 1866, p. 9). But this diminution meant a process of appalling war. In the spring of 1689 came the catastrophe at Choceco (now Dover). Belknap, in his _New Hampshire_, gives a sufficient narrative; and Dr. Quint, in his notes to Pike’s Journal (_Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xiv. 124), indicates the manuscript sources. For the capture of the stockade at Pemaquid, which quickly followed, we have the French side in the _Relation_ of Father Thury, the priest of the mission to the Penobscot Indians, who was in the action, and La Motte-Cadillac’s _Mémoire sur l’Acadie_, 1692. Cf. the references in Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iv. 42. The English side can be gathered from Mather’s _Magnalia; Andros Tracts_, vol. iii.; 3 _Mass. Hist. Coll._ vol. i.; Hough’s “Pemaquid Papers,” in _Maine Hist. Soc. Coll._, vol. v.; Hubbard’s _Indian Wars_, and John Gyles’s _Memoirs_, Boston, 1736 (see _Mem. Hist. Boston_, ii. 336). The story, more or less colored, under new lights or local associations, is told in Hutchinson’s _Massachusetts_, Thornton’s _Ancient Pemaquid_, Johnston’s _Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid_ (p. 170), and of course in Williamson and Parkman. The _Relation_ of Monseignat (_N. Y. Col. Doc._, vol. ix.) and La Potherie are the chief French accounts on the surprise at Salmon Falls, in March, 1690, and according to Parkman, “Charlevoix adds various embellishments not to be found in the original sources.” On the English side, it is still Mather’s _Magnalia_ upon which we must depend, and, as a secondary authority, upon Belknap’s _New Hampshire_ and Williamson’s _Maine_. Parkman points out the help which sundry papers in the _Massachusetts Archives_ afford; and Dr. Quint, in his notes to Pike’s Journal (_Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xiv. 125), has indicated other similar sources. [Illustration: POSITION OF FORT LOYAL.] The attack on Fort Loyal (Portland), in May, 1690, is studied likewise from Monseignat, La Potherie, Mather, with some fresh light out of the “Declaration” of Sylvanus Davis, in 3 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, i. 101, and Bradstreet’s letter to Governor Leisler, in _Doc. Hist. N. Y._, ii. 259. Le Clercq gives the French view; cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iv. 133, and _Le Clercq_, ii. 295; Willis’s _Portland_, p. 284, and _N. Y. Col. Doc._, ix. 472.