U3 REPOET OF THE No. 3 



tamarac, balsam, poplar, birch and balm of gilead. We travelled in a northerly 

 direction, passing over three lakes on only one of which we could land, until we 

 reached the Kapuskasing Eiver. All this country which we came over and as 

 far as we could see was densely wooded, about sixty-five to seventy-five per cent, 

 of the trees being spruce of pulpwood size with patches of larger spruce of timber 

 size (about fifteen per cent, of the spruce) among them. These could be dis- 

 tinguished as we were travelling at a height of 1,200 feet. The day being hot 

 there was a heat haze which made the horizon quite indistinct and of a brownish 

 colour. About forty miles north of Remi Lake and east of Devil's Eapids there 

 were five lakes. They were too small to land on and take off again with any 

 degree of safety. About fifty miles from Eemi we first met muskeg. It was 

 only in small patches, the rest of the country being well wooded. As we proceeded 

 up the Mattagami the country on the east side was well wooded with spruce 



Forced landing on Mattagami River. 



although patches of poplar and birch, some of them being about two miles long, 

 also showed. On the west bank it was also well wooded but gradually as we 

 proceeded north the patches of muskeg became larger, until about fifteen miles 

 south of the junction of the Missinaibi and Mattagami Elvers where again it 

 became thickly wooded with spruce, tamarac, poplar and birch, and extended north 

 CO the junction. 



Just previously to crossing O.L.S. Speight's line, which could be seen quite 

 clearly from the air, and lying west of the river were six lakes of considerable 

 size, the largest being about twelve square miles. 



About twenty miles south of the junction of the Missinaibi and Mattagami 

 Eivers along the east bank of the Mattagami. there was a strip of muskeg about 

 one-half mile wide extending northerly eight or ten miles, which had the appear- 

 ance of an old river basin. Beyond the muskeg it was well wooded as far as the 

 west bank of the Abitibi Eiver. 



