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Appendix No. 26 



Extracts from the Report and Field Notes of the survey of the North boundary 

 of the Townships of Gould, Grasett, 175; and the boundary between 176 

 and 182, District of Algoma, James S. Dobie, O.L.S. 



On the north boundary of the Townships of Grasett and Gould all original 

 posts were found but two, and at one of these, the corner between Lots 10 and 

 11, Township of Gould, the position of the post was satisfactorily determined 

 by locating the intersection with the line between Lots 10 and 11. No trace 

 could be found of the post between Lots 6 and 7, Township of Grasett, and as 

 the chainage on the ground does not agree very well with the notes of the 

 original survey, considerable time was spent in trying to arrive at a satis- 

 factory conclusion. About 9.43 chains west of the theoretical position of this 

 post there are three old blazes which look like blazes on the north and south 

 line, and there is a sheer cliff about four chains west of these blazes. The 

 original field-notes show the crest of a hill 250 feet high at 4.0 chains west 

 of the corner. I thought of placing the post at the intersection with these 

 blazes, on the assumption that they were on the line between Lots 6 and 7. 

 If the post were placed here the chainage to the crest of the cliff referred to 

 would agree substantially with the original notes. The evidence however 

 is not very conclusive, and to place the post at the intersection with these 

 blazes would perpetuate an error by which Lot 6 would be 9.43 chains too 

 wide and Lot 7 the same distance too narrow, so I finally decided to divide 

 equally the distance between the posts at Lot 4 and 5, 8 and 9, giving Lots 5 

 and 6 a total width of 79.89 chains and Lots 7 and 8 the same, notwithstanding 

 that this makes the chainage to the cliff referred to 13.55 chains, instead of 

 4.00 chains as shown in the original notes. The line across Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 

 is extremely rough, several triangulations being necessary to obtain the dis- 

 tance across gorges where it was impossible to chain. The original field-notes 

 do not show any triangulations across these gorges and I am inclined to think 

 that sufficient care was not taken in the original survey to obtain these distances 

 correctly, and that this accounts in some way for the discrepancy in the chain- 

 age in this particular instance. 



The lines are all well opened out and are well blazed in the usual manner. 

 Owing to the nature of the timber on the unburnt sections, consisting as it 

 does largely of maple and birch of large size, it was not possible to open out 

 anything like a sky line without an excessive amount of labor. The chaining 

 was very carefully done, all lines being check chained with a two chain tape 

 and a hundred-foot tape, clinometer measurements being taken wherever 

 necessary, and I feel that the results are as close to being absolutely correct 

 as it is possible to obtain with ordinary equipment in such rough country. 



It was a remarkably dry season and the weather during the first three 

 weeks was very warm so that the small creeks were all dry and it was very 

 difficult to obtain water in the woods. Many bush fires could be seen from 

 the tops of the higher hills but there were none in our immediate vicinity. 

 A very large portion of the area through which these lines pass has been burnt 

 over in past years and is now growing up with the usual growth of mixed 

 second growth. There is considerable white pine standing in Township 175, 

 and in fact throughout the green areas there are scattered clumps of white 

 pine which appear to be of healthy growth and good quality. 



