On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:02:27AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > I wonder if someone who knows would mind clarifying the difference and > relationship between iProvo and Utopia. I have a hunch that they > aren't really the same thing. For reference, my comments in this > thread regarded Utopia. No speculation please, facts and links > preferred. >
I'm not so sure about iProvo, but here's a quote describing Utopia: "The island of Utopia is in the middle 200 miles broad, and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it; but it grows narrower toward both ends. Its figure is not unlike a crescent: between its horns, the sea comes in eleven miles broad, and spreads itself into a great bay, which is environed with land to the compass of about 500 miles, and is well secured from winds. In this bay there is no great current; the whole coast is, as it were, one continued harbor, which gives all that live in the island great convenience for mutual commerce; but the entry into the bay, occasioned by rocks on the one hand, and shallows on the other, is very dangerous. In the middle of it there is one single rock which appears above water, and may therefore be easily avoided, and on the top of it there is a tower in which a garrison is kept; the other rocks lie under water, and are very dangerous. The channel is known only to the natives, so that if any stranger should enter into the bay, without one of their pilots, he would run great danger of shipwreck; for even they themselves could not pass it safe, if some marks that are on the coast did not direct their way; and if these should be but a little shifted, any fleet that might come against them, how great soever it were, would be certainly lost." For more information on Utopia, visit http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/utopia.htm I think it sounds like an interesting place, but I prefer Texas. --Clint
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