THE OUTLKT-DELTA OF LAKE UTOPIA. 



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■2. The Outlet-Delta of Lake Utopia. 



Read June I3th ; re-written December :i3nd, 189(5. 



Lake Utopia is probably tlie most beautiful of JSTew 

 Brunswick lakes. It possesses several features of scien- 

 tific interest, and among them one \\iiicli must be rare, 

 nameh% a delta at its outlet. I cannot find any reference 

 to this delta in any of our geological reports, nor do I 

 remember reading of anything similar elsewhere. The 

 lake empties into the Magaguadavic River by a thorough- 

 fare, locally called "the Canal'' which occupies a break 

 in the rocky hills and is about two miles in length with a 



/ mile 



Fig. 1. Sketch map of Lake Utopia, in part after the 1797 survey map. Depths, in 

 feet, from the lattef map. 



very uniform breadth. Where it leaves the lake, how- 

 ever, it is between two alluvial points Avhich project 

 nearly half a mile from the main shore. These pcjints can 

 be seen to be growing outward and the appearance is that 

 of a delta at the mouth of a stream, though of reversed 

 shape, and it looks sti-ange enough at a lake outlet. 



The points together form a triangle with its base 

 au-ainst the maiidand and the canal dividino- it from the 



