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ant, who had gone on ahead, had everything in readiness, including our iron 

 posts, and on the morning of June 13th we loaded our outfit into five canoes 

 and started down the Kapuskasing Eiver. 



The river at this time of the year was reasonably high and made canoeing 

 much more pleasant, as we were enabled to " run " several rapids that in lower 

 water would require portaging. The longest portage we had was- about one mile 

 in length and was the second last one before we came to our work. On the stretch 

 of river extending through our work there were no portages or rapids, our last, 

 one going in being at the south boundary of Allenby Township. We left part 

 of our provisions on the south boundary of Allenby and took the remainder down 

 to the old G. T. Eailway cache near the north-west corner of Allen])y Township and 

 made camp right at this corner of this township. 



On the morning of June 23rd, we started on the meridian between Oscar 

 and Concobar Townships, after having observed on the line the previous evening. 

 This line was for the most part heavily wooded and undulating, having good 

 clay soil on the higher places, with a subsoil of clay in the wet and marshy 

 places. On the morning of June 27th, we had quite a snowflurry and the same 

 evening it froze quite hard, sufficient to form ice about one-quarter inch thick 

 on our water pails. Owing to the fact that. two of my men disappointed me and 

 one of my chainmen being unable to come in until July 1st, I was obliged to- 

 send out for more men and my assistant went out to Kapuskasing Station return- 

 ing with four men. We made a main camp at the north-west corner of Concobar 

 Township, and from here worked out two and a half miles east to the Kapuskasing" 

 Eiver, the land being generally high and undulating and for the most part 

 heavily wooded with large timber. Then we ran west on the line between Oscar 

 and Bourinot Townships. While this land was undulating there was more low 

 land as we got farther away from the river. In the fifth and sixth miles of this- 

 line, we encountered some good cedar up to fifteen and eighteen inches in diameter. 

 The last quarter of a mile was through very open, small second growth poplar on a 

 sandy loam. No bearing trees were marked here, as there was nothing large- 

 enough to be of use ^for this purpose. No trace was found of the westerly 

 boundary of the township having been run yet, so we produced our lines six 

 chains beyond the nine mile post, and returned to the easterly boundary of the- 

 township. 



We then ran north on the meridian between Bourinot and Shanly Townships. 

 The first couple of miles of this line was mostly through heavy timber with 

 thick underbrush. From the second to the fifth mile was good pulpwood, mostly 

 poplar, and the best we encountered anywhere on the line, while from the fifth 

 to the ninth miles the land was higher and had been burnt over at some previous 

 period. There is considerable second growth and windfall in this area. The 

 nine mile post was planted on a rocky ridge, or outcrop of Keewatin. O.L.S. 

 Code's line had not been run yet, so we proceeded on our line six chains past 

 the nine mile post. On this line we encountered two lakes, as shown on the plan,, 

 and one day we canoed up to work following the stream from our camp near the- 

 four mile post, to our line on the north shore of the lake. We also utilized this 

 stream for moving camp out to the Kapuskasing, and down to the south boundary 

 of Allenby. 



From here we packed east taking the provisions from our cache to the south- 

 east corner of Allenby Township, and proceeded to run the meridian between 

 Allenby and Seaton Townships. When we arrived at this corner we found that 



