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to be well stocked with fish, lake trout, pike, pickerel, whitefish, tulabie and 

 suckers. 



Appendix 30 



Extract of a Report of Survey of Part of Harris Lake and Little Abitibi River, 

 District of Cochrane— A. Matheson, O.L.S., 1927. 



Little Abitibi river is swift in most places and has a current rate of from 

 two to four miles per hour. A great many rapids were encountered, many of 

 which were too rough and swift to cross without portaging. The drop of these 

 rapids was measured and the results are shown on my plan of survey. 



The land for a distance of about one-quarter of a mile on each side of the 

 river consists mostly of clay loam, and contains many large areas of good com- 

 mercial spruce, interspersed with poplar and birch. Farther back from the 

 river the timber is more scrubby and the land more swampy with, as a rule, clay 

 bottoms. 



There are very few rock outcroppings along the part of this river covered 

 by my survey. The rock, where noted, was a sort of grey granite containing 

 very little mineralization. Even boulders are very rare, beside or in the bed 

 of the river, with the result that the banks and bottom of the stream are being 

 eroded and the land on each side is slowly sliding towards the stream. Proof of 

 this is evident as trunks of large trees were often noted firmly rooted in the 

 ground under three feet of water. 



This part of the country is entirely uninhabited, during the summer months 

 at least, and when the survey approached the north where rapids were more 

 numerous, we were often obliged to cut out our own portages when it was neces- 

 sary to disembark on account of swift water. 



Appendix 31 



Extract of a Traverse Shoal Lake, Lake of the Woods, District of Kenora — C. R. 

 Kenny, O.L.S., 1927. 



At the Noith West Angle Inlet the shores are low and boggy, but farther 

 inland the ground consists of clay soil thickly covered with small poplar. The 

 water of this section is very dark in colour from the vegetable matter. 



The shores and islands, except for this inlet, are typical of the Laurentian 

 formation so characteristic in this province, only in a few places rising to any 

 considerable height. I noticed no sand beaches of any considerable extent. 

 The shores generally have a moderate upward slope timbered down to the shore 

 line. 



The timber adjacent to the shores is mixed, consisting of principally poplar 

 and birch, balsam, spruce and red and white pine, ranking in the order named. 

 The poplar and birch is generally small, having an average diameter of about 

 eight inches. The spruce and balsam is scattered and no very good stands were 

 seen. The pine is also scattered and some of merchantable size. 



