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assembled at Clute, twelve miles northwest of Cochrane, and that afternoon 

 reached, by a waggon road recently opened, the foot of the rapids on the Fred- 

 erick House River. This point is about a mile north of the south boundary of 

 the Township of Leitch. 



A descent of ten miles down the Frederick House River brought us to its 

 junction with the Abitibi River. We found the line between the Townships of 

 Colquhoun and Leitch without difficulty and about thirty chains north of the 

 Abitibi River located the iron and wooden posts planted to mark the north- 

 west corner of the Township of Leitch, at which point the season's work com- 

 menced. 



From this corner of the Township of Leitch we ran a meridian north eighteen 

 miles and fifty- two links, to O.L.S. Niven's base line in 1899, which we inter- 

 sected six chains and thirty-three and a half links east of his nine mile post. 



From the nine mile post on our meridian we ran eastward eight miles, 

 seventy-six chains and thirty-six links to the meridian run in 1898 by O.L.S. 

 Niven, and from the same post we ran westward across the Abitibi River. Mean- 

 while a sub-party ascended Driftwood Creek to the north boundary of the Town- 

 ship of Colquhoun, and travelling westward along that boundary, reached the 

 northeast angle of the Township of Kendry. There they commenced a second 

 meridian which was also carried north to O.L.S. Niven's base line of 1899. 

 Our base line run westward across the Abitibi River, intersected this meridian 

 at eight miles seventy-nine chains and thirty-nine links north of the Township 

 of Kendry. The base line was then carried westward to intersect a third meri- 

 dian which we ran north from the northeast angle of the part of the Township 

 of Alexandra lying south of O.L.S. Speight's base line of 1905. This meridian 

 was run north to O.L.S. Niven's base line. Our base line was then carried west- 

 ward to the west boundary of the Township of Beardmore, intersecting that 

 boundary at one chain and fifty-seven links north of the southeast corner of 

 the township. 



The remainder of the work lay north of O.L.S. Niven's base line and com- 

 menced at the northeast angle of the Township of Beardmore. This point was 

 reached from the Poplar Rapids River by means of a canoe route, leaving that 

 river about a mile above its mouth. From the township corner we ran north 

 slightly more than eighteen miles, to the base line run last year by O.L.S. Sut- 

 cliffe and Neelands. " 7e picked up the line for the north boundary of the Town- 

 ship of Tucker, run by ourselves in 1911, and continued it eastward twenty-six 

 chains and sixty-six links to intersect our meridian, and then continued eastward 

 eight miles, forty-nine chains and seventy links, to a meridian run last year by 

 O.L.S. Sutcliffe and Neelands. This completed the season's work. The party 

 then ascended the Mattagami River and reached rail head at Smooth Rock 

 Falls on 11th August. 



All lines were well opened out and carefully blazed. Wooden posts were 

 planted at the end of each mile and iron posts were planted at the end of each 

 third mile and at the township corners, or as witness posts for those points. 



On each line carried across more than one township the chainage was recom- 

 menced at the intersecting township outlines. 



Wooden posts were selected from the most durable material available in 

 the vicinity of the point to be marked, and the posts themselves were firmly 

 planted. We found it impossible in any instance to build a cairn of stones, as 

 we encountered very little rock and none of it was reasonably close to a point 

 where it could be used in this way. Owing to the flat nature of the country 

 and the presence of considerable areas of swamp, a number of the iron posts 



