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mile post. The posts on the west boundary were marked from 1 to 28 from 

 .son til to north and on the north boundary from 1 to 21 from west to east, the 

 liiial post being marked " 21M 10' chains " and being planted at the chainage. 

 Iron posts li/4 in. in diameter were planted at intervals of three miles from east 

 to west on the south boundary, from south to north on the west boundary and 

 from west to east on the north boundary. Iron posts 1% in. in diameter were 

 planted at the south-west and north-west angles of the limit and a chainage 

 21M 10 chains on the north boundary. These posts were all marked with the 

 mileage at which they were planted. 



The ends of the 21st and 29th miles on the south boundary and the 13th 

 on the west boundary came in places where it was impossible to plant posts. The 

 first two being in lakes, the posts were planted on the nearest shores. In the third 

 instance the mile point came on top of a large boulder and the post was moved 

 forward. These posts were marked with the chainage at which they were planted. 



Survey Lines. 



The only line established by an Ontario Land Surveyor encountered was a 

 meridian run by A. H. Macdougall, in 1903. This was intersected by our south 

 boundary at chainage 6M 51.805 and the distance to the nearest mile post was 

 ten chains and thirteen links to the south, the post being marked " XIV M.'"' 

 This line was also found at its intersection with Mclntyre Bay, or the closing 

 point of our survey. 



Other lines found were numerous trial lines surveyed by the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway Company, about eight years ago, in an endeavour to locate suitable 

 grades for a railway from Nipigon to Savanne. The direction of these lines 

 was not noted but the chainage of those intersecting our lines are indicated in 

 the field notes. 



Topography. 



The region in the vicinity of the Black Sturgeon River is very rough, the 

 river valley being about four hundred feet deep with summits from twenty chains 

 to three miles inland. For two miles after crossing Sucker Creek the land is. 

 fairly level and from here west to the Spruce River is a very rough broken 

 '^ountry with hills from fifty to three hundred feet high. The land along the 

 west boundary is not rough but has a continual slope to the north. There Avould 

 be a drop of about six hundred feet in this line. On the north boundary from 

 the Poshkokagan River to the north-west corner of the limit there is a slope to 

 the east. East of the Poshkokagan River to the portage from Lake Nipigon to 

 Black Sturgeon Lake is fairly level and from the portage east to the twenty 

 mile post is a high rocky country the slope being to the south. East of the 

 twenty mile post is nearly level. 



Soil. 



On the south boundary the best soil found was from about the 3rd mile 

 post to the 6th mile post. This graded from sandy loam at the cast to a red 

 clay loam on the west. The subsoil is clay. West of here to the Spruce River 

 the country was nearly all rocky and the soil either light or very stony. West 

 of the river good land was again found. This area extended from the 25th 

 mile to the 28th and is nearly all a sandy loam. On the west boundary good 



