HYDROGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK 
405 
relative low water discharges, may be reasonably inferred. Lack 
of accurate topographical surveys of the watersheds makes the 
results given merely fair approximations, and where, by different 
calculations, some areas have been found to be about alike, I 
have recorded them as quite the same, rather than to chance mis- 
placing a river in the series. 
It is interesting to note that our Grand Falls discharges the 
collected waters of about 9100 square miles, an area somewhat 
larger than Massachusetts, while the St. Maurice at Shawanegan 
Falls, the site of such recent and extensive economic development, 
drains about 12,400 square miles, the Ottawa at Chaudiere Falls 
about 40,000 square miles, Niagara 241,000 square miles. The 
entire catchment basin of the St. John has been hitherto giveti at 
26,000 square miles, an estimate that several calculations show me 
to be grossly incorrect. Much the largest hydrographic unit 
solely in New Brunswick is the system of the Miramichi. 
Index of Approximate Hydrcgraphic Basins of Principal New Bruns- 
wick Rivers and Larger Tributaries. 
River 
Sq.M. 
River. 
SqM. 
Magaguadavic .... 
. 680 
Aroostook . . 
2160 
Miramichi 
. 4620 
<D 
Mesardis .... 
260 
above N. W. Branch. . . 
• 3975 
5 
Big Machias . . 
225 
above Boiestown 
IOQO 
C 
Tobique .... 
I560 
N. W. Branch . 
. I59O 
sz 
0 
Right Hand Branch 
410 
above Little S. W. . 
. 85O 
1 ' 
Little Tobique. . . . 
3 7 o 
Renous .... 
• 575 
c n 
Jemseg .... ... 
1470 
Cain’s .... 
- 575 
O) 
Maquapit River . . 
330 
Nepisiguit. . .... 
. 800 
0 
Allagash .... .... 
1450 
at Grand Falls . 
. 600 
5 ^ 
Madawaska . . . 
1140 
Restigouche 
. 4740 
CC 
Fish River 
950 
above Kedgwick 
. 640 
a ^ 
JD 
Kennebecasis . . . 
850 
Metapedia .... 
• 1430 
*£ 
Oromocto ... ... 
810 
Upsalquitch 
. 910 
<L> 
Washademoak .... 
775 
Kedgwick .... 
620 
St. Francis .... 
700 
Patapedia .... 
. 300 
a ) 
Big Black . . ... 
600 
Petitcodiac (at Moncton). . . 
. 600 
as 
Nashwaak .... 
575 
St. Croix . .... 
. 1630 
<v 
N. W. Branch . . 
55 ° 
St. John 
21300 
n 
O) 
Green River . . .... 
475 
above Allagash 
. 2950 
xz 
Meduxnekeag .... 
420 
at Grand Falls 
. 9100 
< 
Eel River . 
230 
at Andover .... 
. 13200 
1 Meruimpticook . . . 
200 
at Fredericton. . 
. 16000 
Miramichi, Little S.W. Branch 
575 
