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to Lower Manitou Falls, where there is a drop of about 15 feet. In this stretch 

 of river there is a drop of about a foot, as there are a couple of places where the 

 current is very strong. The banks are mostly high and rocky, covered with 

 a growth of poplar, spruce, jack pine, birch, etc., much of it of good quality. 

 The north bank is lower than the south and there is one low area through which 

 a small creek runs that extends back for a considerable distance. 



Below Manitou Falls a short distance the river enters Barnston Lake 

 and from here as far as Indian Lake where the survey was discontinued for 

 the season, the general characteristics of the river and country adjacent are 

 much the same. The English River here consists of a series of short river 

 stretches connecting lake expansions, some of which are quite large. From 

 the west end of Sandbar Lake, which is connected to Barnston Lake by a short 

 river stretch on which there is a small rapid known as Barnston Rapids where 

 there is a drop of a foot and a half, the general course of the river is south to 

 southwest. The prevailing rock formation is Laurentian, the strike of which 

 is east and west. The lakes occupy troughs in the granite and gneiss, the general 

 direction of which follows the strike of the formation, the result being that 

 the lakes generally speaking lie east and west and the river stretches connecting 

 one lake with another cross the formation and run south and southwest. One 

 result of this has been that the general travelled route along the river crosses 

 the lakes instead of running lengthwise of them, and the lakes are much longer 

 than would appear from observation along the travelled route. Oak Lake 

 for instance is shown on the published maps of this section as being about seven 

 or eight miles long, whereas its length is really nineteen miles. 



Long Legged River flows into the north side of Wilcox Lake about a mile 

 west of the English River. This river drains a system of lakes lying to the 

 northwest. The survey was carried up this river a distance of nearly seven 

 miles to the first falls where a post marked "P. No. 108" was planted in a sub- 

 stantial stone mound just west of the bottom of the falls. This river is two 

 chains wide at the mouth with easy bends and sluggish current through a flat 

 clay valley with higher ground some distance back. The banks near Wilcox 

 Lake are low and flat with grass and willows for some distance back from the 

 river. As one goes up stream the banks rise slightly and the quality of the 

 timber improves, poplar, spruce and jack pine predominating. 



A short distance below Wilcox Lake there occurs a series of three falls 

 known as Oak Falls. The upper two of these are close together, and the lower 

 one is about three-quarters of a mile down stream. Lower Oak Falls drops 

 immediately into Oak Lake. The total fall in these three pitches combined is 

 twenty-two and a half feet. Between Oak Lake and Maynard Lake there is a 

 river stretch with a fall of about a foot. At the outlet of Maynard Lake there 

 is a short, heavy rapids where the river takes a drop of nine feet into Tide Lake. 

 The banks here are rocky and rise rapidly a short distance back from the river 

 on either side so that it should be possible to concentrate all the fall from Manitou 

 Falls to Maynard Falls at this point. This would give an available head of 

 about fifty feet which would provide a power concentration at this point of 

 considerable magnitude. The question of the amount and value of the land 

 that would be flooded, however, would have to be carefully looked into, although 

 the character of the country is such that I venture the opinion that the damage 

 from flooding would not be nearly so great as would occur in the case of the 

 power concentration previously mentioned as a possibility at Manitou Falls. 



Below Maynard Falls the river flows through Tide Lake and Ball Lake 

 and empties into Indian Lake where the survey was discontinued for the season. 



