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Fish, 



Pickerel, pike, whitefish, lake trout and suckers are to be found in abundance 

 in all the lakes. 



This is my report. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) K. G. Ross, 



Ontario Land Surveyor 



The Honourable, the Minister oj Lands and Forests, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 21. 



Survey of Base and Meridian Lines in Vicinity of Abitibi and Mattagami 

 Rivers, District of Timiskaming. 



New Liskeard, Ont., August 30th, 192L 



Sir, — Under instructions from the Director of Surveys, dated May 6th, 

 1921, our Mr. Sutclifife and party proceeded to Smooth Rock Falls from whence 

 they followed the Mattagami River to where same is crossed by O.L.S. Niven's 

 base line, which was cut out in the year 1900. There was no difficulty finding 

 this line or in reachin g the 27 mile post at which our work began. 



As instructed we ran a meridian line due north from O. L. S. Niven's 27 

 mile post for a distance of 54 miles and 12 links to intersect O.L.S. Speight's 

 base line ran in 1911. From the 18 mile post on our meridian line we ran our 

 first base line west 17 miles 73.50 chains to intersect O.L.S. Speight's meridian 

 line, ran 1911, and east 5 miles 69 chains to the Abitibi River. From the 27 

 mile post we ran our second base line east 6 miles 48 chains to the Abitibi River. 

 From the 36 mile post we ran our third base line west 17 miles 67.05 chains to 

 intersect O.L.S. Speight's meridian line and east 3 miles 25 chains to the Abitibi 

 River. From the 45 mile post we ran our fourth base line east 42.34 chains to 

 the Abitibi River. 



No serious obstacles were met with on the journey in or during the work 

 and outside of having two canoes upset we were fortunate in not having any 

 serious accidents to either our men or equipment. As instructed, 9 mile chords 

 were run on the base lines, and in our field notes we have shown the true astro- 

 nomic bearing for each mile as run on the ground, and while there are very slight 

 differences from the theoretic bearings and distances, we believe that you will 

 he well satisfied with the accuracy of the work, and we are pleased to report 

 close checking when closing in on O.L.S. Speight's work, done in 1911. 



