64 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Joyce River 



Joyce River joins Trout River about three miles north of the junction with 

 the Woman Lake River. It is a small stream, varying in width of from one to 

 three chains, and having a total length from Lake Joyce to its mouth of about 

 nine miles, with a fall through this distance of fifty-six feet. It traverses through 

 banks of clay and sandy soil, with considerable showings of granite rock, and has 

 a watershed area of probably less than fifty square miles. Timber along the 

 river and for miles about has been burned, leaving the country almost barren. 



This river is navigable for large canoes at ordinary water stage, and has 

 only four good short portages, lately cut out, to encounter, making the route 

 easy to travel to this section of the country. 



Joyce Lake 



Joyce Lake has about twenty-three miles of shore line and thirty-eight 

 islands. It has clear water and of moderate depth. The shores are rocky, 

 overlaid with clay and sandy soil, and the banks vary in height of from three to 

 eight feet. 



The country in the vicinity is of clay and sand, with considerable outcrop- 

 pings of granite rock. The timber consists chiefly of very good areas of spruce 

 to 15-inch, poplar, birch, and balsam. There are also large areas of country 

 carrying jack pine timber of merchantable size. 



Little Trout Lake 



This lake has a shore line of about thirty-five miles and twenty-four islands. 

 Its water, which is deep and clear, empties into Trout River. The shores are 

 generally rock and boulders, overlaid with sand and clay soil. The surrounding 

 country about the lake, except the district to the south, which has been burned, 

 appears to be well timbered with poplar to 15-inch, birch to 10-inch, spruce to 

 15-inch, balsam to 8-inch, and scattered areas of jack pine to 15-inch. 



Little Trout Lake is connected on the westerly shore with Otter Lake by 

 a narrow neck of water about two and a quarter miles in length. 



Otter Lake 



Otter Lake empties its waters into Little Trout Lake. It has about ten 

 miles of shore line and three islands. The water in the lake is clear and of 

 moderate depth. The beaches are strewn with boulders and the banks are from 

 three to five feet in height, made up of clay and sandy soil with considerable 

 outcroppinga of rock. 



The country in the vicinity of the lake is of clay and sandy soil, timbered 

 on the easterly side with goodly quantities of spruce to 12-inch, poplar, birch to 

 12-inch, and balsam. Here and there will be found ridges of gravel and sand 

 carrying jack pine timber to a merchantable size. 



The country to the west of the lake has been recently burned over, and the 

 timber destroyed, and has since grown up with small poplar and birch. 



Otter Lake connects Trout Lake by a small stream, varying in width of 

 from four to fifteen chains and three-quarters of a mile in length. 



