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with my traverse when the bearings of the tangents have been adjusted to 

 agree with what I found the actual bearings to be at the crossings of the French 

 and Pickerel Rivers. The short spirals I have included with the tangents. 

 The plotting of the Canadian National Railway location from records also 

 furnished me closes fairly well also. 



In one of the larger outlets of the Bad River, Stations 52 to 53, I have 

 made a rough estimate of the horse-power at a fall. The other outlets of the 

 Bad River are very broken and irregular, and until the water is much higher an 

 attempt at an estimate would be a very rough approximation. I might say too 

 that while working in that vicinity the water suddenly lowered considerably, 

 caused no doubt by the holding up of the water on the Wahnapitae in driving 

 saw-logs. An estimate was also made at the falls at Station 400, on the main 

 French River. At Station 334, at the east end of the big island 3464 T.P., 

 where there is some fall and volume in high water, there was a mere trickle of 

 water. At Station 343 at Horseshoe Rapids, there was a small volume going 

 through, but probably a much more accurate estimate could be made in high 

 water. The estimate at this latter point was overlooked, however. At Station 

 203 on the fall near Copananing an estimate was also made. The above estimates 

 accompany the field notes. 



The whole country is Laurentian rock. In the lower levels adjoining 

 Georgian Bay, it is a succession of parallel rocky ridges in a southwesterly 

 course, and from about six to thirty feet high. In some of the Copananing 

 vicinity the ridges are very tedious to travel through. Farther up it changes 

 into a rolling country with a few precipitous hills. 



Through the whole country there are small patches of tillable soil mostly 

 sand of all grades of fineness and fertility, with occasionally gravel and boulders. 

 In the clearings it was observed that fairly good crops were growing. In the 

 valleys of the Wahnapitae River and Beef Tea Creek there is apparently good 

 clay land, and mostly devoid of much rock. There are apparently no con- 

 siderable tracts of tillable land. The settlers at the C.N.R. crossing on the 

 Pickerel River mentioned that there are in that vicinity some large patches of 

 good land on Island 3464 T.P. 



The timber consists principally of jack pine ranging in size from a scrubby, 

 two inches in diameter, adjoining Georgian Bay, and in other small tracts, to a 

 general distribution through the region traversed of a diameter of from four to 

 ten inches. Poplar and white birch, balsam, spruce, and an occasional thicket 

 of cedar, all up to a diameter of about ten inches, are found generally throughout. 

 In many places a new growth of white and red pine of from three to six inches 

 diameter was observed. There will probably be in a few years a considerable 

 amount of merchantable pine. There are groves of very good large white and 

 red pine in several places. In the valleys of the Wahnapitae River and Beef 

 Tea Creek, in addition to the timber mentioned, except jack pine, there is con- 

 siderable soft maple, ash. Balm o' Gilead, elm and some red oak. There are a 

 few patches of old brule, here and there, in the whole country traversed. 



Accompanying the returns I have prepared a timber map on which I have 

 shewn in colours the distribution of the various timbers. All the timber is of 

 good quality, except that probably a great deal of the scattered large white and 

 red pines are faulty. 



Some hard maple bush was observed at Location D.B. 3 on Island 3464 T.P. 

 This is a very fine location. 



The country generally is very attractive to the tourist. With the exception 

 of the immediate vicinity of Georgian Bay, and probably one-half at the most of 



