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Accompanying this report are field notes of the survey, a map of the town- 

 ship outlines and a timber plan, all of which I trust will be found complete 

 and satisfactory. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) J. W. FlT2 GERALD, 



Ontai-io Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable, the Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 32. 



Little Current, Ont., January 31st, 192L 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit to you the following report on the 

 survey of Lake Penage and part of the Whitefish River, including Walker Lake, 

 Bear Lake and Long Lake, to the east limit of the Whitefish River Indian 

 Reserve, according to instructions from your Department dated Toronto, 

 May 4th, 1920. 



Having proceeded from Little Current by train on 1st July, and canoe, 

 from Willisville, situated on the first lake up the Whitefish River, I arrived at 

 the east limit of the Whitefish River Indian Reserve on Long Lake on Saturday 

 evening, July 3rd. 



Commencing at the said east limit of Whitefish River Indian Reserve, 

 the work was continued with very little interruption and completed on the 

 9th of September. We arrived back at Little Current on the 11th of September. 



With only one or two exceptions, all posts planted were of cedar, not less 

 than 4 inches square; in most cases they are 5 inches, some are six inches, and 

 properly marked. Every post, with only one or two exceptions, is mounded 

 up with stones, forming a cairn, which at nearly every post has a base of five 

 feet, and about two feet high. Where a post was merely driven, it is noted in 

 the traverse. All posts were also planted well above the flood water, caused 

 by damming the lakes in river driving. 



On Lake Penage a careful triangulation was made throughout from several 

 bases, which were measured and remeasured with a steel tape. Stadia readings 

 were made on several of the triangulated distances, a table of which I have 

 shown in the notes, with the resultant difference. In plotting my work across 

 Berths 90 and 91, I was obliged to apply this difference in order to close reason- 

 ably with the recorded measurement of the line between those Berths. 



In several places, where no other check was available, the measurements 

 were carefully duplicated and compared. 



Posts were planted on all islands, except on small, bare rocks where no 

 loose stones were available to mound them, and properly marked and their 



