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south-westerly direction for a distance of about 25 miles, where it empties into 

 Badesdawaga Lake. 



Its total fall in this distance is 47 feet, taken up in several falls and rapids 

 and a moderate current. The river traverses through banks of sand and clay 

 soil, which are usually low and brushy. 



The country in the vicinity of the river appears to be fairly well timbered 

 with spruce of commercial size, interspersed with poplar, birch and balsam. 



On account of the small water shed areas of these parts of the Crow and 

 Otoskwin Rivers, it seems improbable that water power development would be 

 of economic value, although the flow of either of the rivers could be readily 

 controlled at or near the outlets of the lakes using moderate limits of regulation. 



There are plenty of fish such as pike, pickerel, and sturgeon 'in the lakes 

 and streams, but it appears to be a poor country for game, although there are 

 signs of moose, red deer, and caribou. 



During the course of the control traverse and meridian line survey, together 

 with the miles of water and land to travel in, the transportation of supplies 

 and outfit for line work, I venture to state that the total net-work of survey 

 and travel would bound an area of about 500 square miles. This total area 

 appears to be well timbered with pulpwood. 



Appendix No. 27 

 Report of the Traverse Survey of the Albany River, by J. S. Dobie, O.L.S., 1929. 



In accordance with your instructions dated May 1st, 1929, I have completed 

 the survey of the Albany River from the mouth of the Opichuan River to James 

 Bay, and beg to submit the following report. 



The survey was started at Transit Station No. 1162 of the survey of the 

 Albany River by myself in 1928, and was carried forward continuously to where 

 the Albany River empties into James Bay, a little over four miles below Fort 

 Albany. 



The upper portion of the river which was surveyed during the season 

 flows through several fairly large lake expansions, and an outline survey was 

 run around both sides of these lakes in a manner similar to that described in 

 previous years. Below Marten Falls there are in some places some large islands 

 several miles long, and a traverse was run down each channel at most of these. 

 From Marten Falls to James Bay the survey follows the north bank of the river 

 for almost the entire distance. 



The survey was made by transit and stadia in the same manner as in 

 previous years. Every effort was made to reduce the errors in reading distances 

 to as near an absolute minimum as possible, while the use of a transit with a 

 telescope sufficiently powerful to permit of an observation being taken on polaris 

 at any hour of the day made it possible to almost eliminate azimuth errors. 



On account of the manner in which mapping by means of oblique aerial 

 photographs has been developed during recent years, and as it is expected that 

 this method of mapping will be applied to the territory adjacent -to the Albany 

 River, it was not considered advisable to go into great detail in locating the shore 

 line. The traverse of numerous islands and of many bays, particularly in the 

 lake expansions, was dispensed with, as the details of these can be plotted later 



