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Cat River. This is a fairly level swampy area, with low rock ridges, and con- 

 tains the largest quantity of timber seen during the survey. 



The remainder of the second base line and the three meridian lines run 

 almost entirely through burnt country, with second growth of varying ages. 



There is a small grove of red pine on the north shore of the bay lying north- 

 east of Island No. 49, near the east end of the part of Lake St. Joseph included 

 in this survey. There would be probably fifty thousand feet of red pine in 

 this grove, and it is the only red pine seen during the survey. There is no 

 white pine whatever, the last white pine tree seen during the season being on 

 an island in Lac Seul. 



The second growth timber consists almost entirely of poplar, birch, jack 

 pine and spruce. Along the shores of Lake St. Joseph there is considerable 

 scrubby cedar, but it does not appear to extend inland, as very few cedar trees 

 were observed along the lines. 



Manv of the islands have also sufTered extensively from fire, although 



H. B. Co. Post, Osnaburgh, District of Patricia. 



some of them are fairly well timbered with spruce, jack-pine, white birch, and 

 poplar of fair size. Information as to this is given in the detailed description 

 of each island which accompanies this report. 



The gi eater part of the portion of Lake St. Joseph surveyed during the 

 season, lies between the first and second base line. The south shoie of Lake 

 St. Joseph, from the meridian of 1919 to the first meridian of 1920, is fairly 

 straight and rocky, with occasional sand beaches. The ground rises quite 

 rapidly from the lake, in places reaching an elevation of from 100 to 150 feet 

 above the lake a comparatively short distance back. The north shore in this 

 section, on the contrary, is low and flat, with many broad, deep bays, ending 

 in fairly extensive marshes. Very little rock is exposed in this section, the 

 shores being composed mostly of sand and boulders, excepting in the marshes, 

 and these appear to be shallow, resting on a sandy sub-soil. 



West of the first meridian the south shore becomes very much indented. 

 There are many large islands with narrow channels between, these channels 



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