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boulders to be of much value as agricultural land. The swamps throughout 

 this part of the township are clay bottomed with from a foot to two feet of 

 black muck and covered with six to eighteen inches of moss. 



The area lying southeast of the line which I show on the timber plan as the 

 approximate limit of old brule is fairly well timbered with jackpine, spruce, 

 balsam, poplar and balm of Gilead up to twenty inches in diameter. There 

 is not much log material but there is considerable suitable for ties and pulpwood. 

 There is also a small area of similar timber in lots 18 to 21 in concession 11. 

 The balance of the township was swept by a very destructive fire probably 

 fifty or sixty years ago and is covered with jack pine, poplar, spruce, birch and 

 balsam averaging about six inches in diameter, and in some places there is a 

 very dense growth of small balsam and spruce. The swamps throughout this 

 burnt area are grown up with small spruce and tamarac while much of the 

 dry cedar and tamarac killed by the fire is still standing. 



The lakes are all quite shallow and like the streams are very clear with 

 usually gravel bottoms. Unlike most of the northern lakes and streams, the 

 water is very hard. 



Game is not very plentiful. A few signs of moose and red deer were seen. 

 Beaver are fairly numerous as is the small game. A few otters were also seen. 

 I did not have an opportunity to try fishing in many of the lakes but trout are 

 said to be numerous in the Little Jackfish River. 



Appendix No. 33 



Extract from Report of T. G. Code, O.L.S., 1926. Traverse Little Abitibi 

 Lakes, District of Cochrane. 



On the lakes a base line was established by stadia, the stadia being first 

 checked by a chainage along the shore, the check giving a stadia reading 19.83 

 and the chainage being 19.912 chains. The canoe was then sent around the 

 lake to the different points, setting up large pickets, while I read the angles to 

 them. This process was reversed from the further end of the base if the pickets 

 proved invisible or doubtful. 



Posts 



Posts were planted at several points along the survey and numbered as 

 shown on the plans and field notes. Where stone was available the posts were 

 well mounded. 



Soil 



The soil, where visible, is a good clay loam and suitable for agriculture. 

 The rivers between Little Abitibi and Williston and between Williston and 

 Pierre Lakes, have rocky bottoms, but the land is fairly high and with few excep- 

 tions is of clay. The southwest and southeast ends of Little Abitibi are very 

 low and flat with considerable muskeg. On the extreme west side of Pierre 

 Lake the ground is low and flat along a creek that enters the bay and also at 

 the outlet, but with these exceptions the land appeared to be high enough to 

 provide sufficient drainage for farming. 



