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following morning I proceeded to Sioux Lookout via Franz and Fort William, 

 and after securing there what was needed to complete my outfit, I proceeded to 

 Bucke, where I arrived about two o'clock on the morning of Sunday, March 14th. 



Word had been sent to Mr. A. H. A. Eobinson, of the Department of Mines, 

 Ottawa, to meet me in Bucke on Monday, March 15th, and he arrived on that 

 date, his train being some hours late. I secured the services of a couple of local 

 Indians with dog teams, to help move the outfit and supplies to the starting 

 point of the survey, and found their help of great assistance, as even with their 

 help, it was necessary to make two trips with the outfit. We found a very good 

 trail as far as Lake Savant, where we branched ofi: to the west, through a series 

 of small lakes to Kashaweogama Lake. It was Friday afternoon, March 19th, 

 before we were ready to start the actual survey.. I had hoped to obtain an 

 observation before starting, but cloudy weather prevented this, so a start was 

 made from an assumed meridian on the morning of Saturday, March 20th. 

 Fortunately, I was able to get an observation on Polaris early on Saturday even- 

 ing, and corrected my bearings. 



From this point on, the survey was carried on with all possible speed, as it 

 was realized that the season was late, and the work had to be rushed in order to 

 get out before the ice became too bad. We were held up occasionally for short 

 intervals by stormy weather, and once just after we started, by a couple of hot 

 days followed by rain, which took all the snow off the ice. The surface of the 

 lake became so slippery that it was almost impossible to stand, and there was from 

 four to six inches of water all over the lake. This, however, did not last long. 

 For the most part, the weather conditions were good for the work, and the tem- 

 perature continued low, so that the ice was still firm when we finished the survey 

 on the afternoon of April 27th. During the last week we made it a point to 

 be at work by daylight, in order to take advantage of the good walking in the 

 early morning. 



We started for the railway early on the morning of April 28th, and the trip 

 out took two days. Considerable difficulty was encountered on account of the 

 snow having nearly disappeared on the portages. Some of these were filled with 

 fallen timber, so that our toboggans and snowshoes suffered severely, so much 

 so that they were nearly all abandoned when we reached the railway. The ice 

 on the lakes was quite firm, but some difficulty was experienced in getting on 

 and off the ice as it was getting bad close to the shore. 



The work on the survey was carefully done, all angles being measured with a 

 transit, and the main traverse lines being measured with a Fice chain steel tape. 

 The bearings were checked frequently by astronomical observations. The details 

 of the shore line were measured with .stadia rods, these measurements being 

 taken close enough together to show all details of the shore line. At intervals 

 of about a mile, a prominent tree was squared and marked with the letter "B " 

 followed by the number of the tree in Roman numerals. Each island bad a tree 

 squared and marked in the same manner, except that trees on the islands were 

 marked "I, No. — " followed by the number of the island in Roman numerals. 

 These trees were all recorded in the notes, the bearings to them from the various 

 transit stations being measured with a transit, and the distances with a steel tape. 



The magnetometric survey which was to be carried on in connection with the 

 shore line survey, was attended to by Mr. A. H. A. Robinson, of the Department 

 of Mines, Ottawa, and this work was carefully and accurately done. The cross 

 sections where the magnetic measurements were made, were laid off witli a transit 



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