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and 31/2 ft. high; also 1 culvert 6^/^ miles west of Chalk River with rock fUl 

 100 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and oi/o ft. high. This road was well ditched and 

 surfaced with gravel in the worst places. It passes through a country that has 

 been sparsely settled for over 50 years. The road as now constructed, was origin- 

 ally built and known as the Peml)roke and Mattawa Road ; and was used by the 

 lumbermen for transporting supplies from Pembroke west to IMattawa during the 



The Interprovincial Bridge crossing the Ottawa lUver at the Joachim 

 Rapids, near the Trunk Road from Pembroke to Mattawa. 



early sixties. The land along this road is a light sandy loam, stoney and rocky 

 in places; and while there are sections with fairly good agricultural land, taking 

 the country as a whole, it is not very well suited for agricultural purposes. There 

 is, however, considerable traffic on this road during the winter season in taking 

 supplies from Pembroke west to Deux Joachim, where there is an interprovincial 

 iron bridge spanning the Ottawa River; and from this bridge northward through 



