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The Hudson's Bay Company and Revillon Freres both have well stocked 

 trading posts at Fort Albany, and schools for the Indian children are conducted 

 by both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches. 



The rocks exposed along the upper stretches of the portion of the Albany 

 River surveyed during the season are principally granite. On the shores of 

 Makokobarter and Washi lakes and on the river between these two lakes there 

 are some exposures of Keewatin rocks in which micaceous and dioritic schists 

 were noticed. Similar rocks occur along the river near Marten Falls and for 

 several miles above that point. The granites are seen again as small islands in 

 the river a short distance below Marten Falls. The last exposure of granite 

 is on a small island about thirteen miles below Marten Falls. Not far below 

 this the limestone appears and this formation continues to James Bay. Lime- 

 stone appears in the form of low steep banks at three or four places along the 

 river, but the most of the exposures of limestone are in the bottom of the river 

 which runs over these fiat beds of limestone with a very swift current approaching 

 a rapids at times. 



Very little game of any kind was seen during the season, and the scarcity 

 of signs of large game such as deer, caribou, moose and bear indicates that 

 they are not plentiful. Fur-bearing animals appear to be decreasing from year 

 to year. Pike, pickerel, and whitefish are plentiful in the lake expansions and 

 sturgeon were numerous at all rapids during the early part of the season. At 

 nearly all the rapids speckled trout of large size are plentiful. These splendid 

 game fish were caught all along the river as far as the mouth of the Kenogami 

 River, but none were caught between the Kenogami River and James Bay. 

 Ducks and geese are very plentiful in the fall of the year on the low land around 

 the mouth of the Albany River and along the coast of James Bay. 



The magnetic variation is fairly constant, and there does not appear to be 

 much local attraction. The magnetic variation increases gradually from four 

 degrees near the west end of Makokobarter Lake to thirteen degrees at Fort 

 Albany. 



The plans, field notes and other records of the survey including my account 

 in triplicate have already been forwarded to your Department, and this report 

 completes the returns of the survey. I trust that you will find everything 

 satisfactory. 



Appendix No. 28 



Extract from the report on the survey of the Little Abitibi River from Reference 

 No. 87, Abitibi River Survey, 1922, to its Intersection with the Northerly 

 Limit of the Township of Kineras, by J. Lanning, O.L.S., 1930. 



Topographical 



Between the points surveyed almost the entire distance consists of rapids 

 and swift water. 



Levels were taken only when canoes had to be lined along the shore and 

 could not be poled or paddled. 



The total fall thereby obtained amounted to three hundred and thirty 

 feet, approximately. 



Between stations 46 and 58 comparatively smooth water occurs and also 

 between stations 153 and 163. 



