1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 107 



On the hills and uplands of the eight townships outlined by me the country 

 is broken and rocky and has been repeatedly overrun by fire, so there is prac- 

 tically no timber now remaining on the uplands, which are covered with small 

 poplar, white birch and banksian pine. In the vicinity of Upper Green Lake 

 there still remains considerable scattered white and red pine of good size and 

 quality. 



In the lowlands between the hills are found the usual swampy tracts covered 

 with spruce, dead and decaying tamarac with alder and willow underbrush and 

 considerable windfall; the average size of this timber ranges from two to ten 

 inches in diameter. Probably eighty-five per cent, of these townships is high 

 and rocky, the remaining fifteen per cent, being low and swampy. 



I am very sorry to have to report there is absolutely no agricultural land 

 in any of the townships outlined by me, nor does there appear on the surface 

 any indication of the existence of economic minerals. The whole country is 

 traversed by numerous rivers, creeks and lakes, containing considerable very 

 good fish, particularly pike and lake trout. Moose and red deer are also very 

 plentiful in this locality. While the country cannot be called exactly moun- 

 tainous, it is very rough and broken throughout. 



All the survey was carried out under my personal supervision, and at only 

 one or two points did I find it necessary to depart from the instructions with 

 respect to having angles opposite the base over ten degrees in triangulation 

 work. 



There is a considerable tourist traffic passes through the townships, this 

 being the chief waterway leading south from the Canadian Pacific Railway to 

 the Mississaga Forest Reserve. Many of these parties were met with during 

 the progress of the survey. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. W. Fitzgerald, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 38. 

 Certain Township Outlines in the District of Sudbury. 



North Bay, Ont., November 21st, 1922. 



Sir, — We beg to report on the survey of certain township outlines in the 

 District of Sudbury, surveyed by us under instructions from your Department 

 dated the 12th day of April, 1922. 



We left North Bay on the 14th of June, arriving at Roberts Station on the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway the same day with a small number of our party; the 

 balance of the party, being Indians, were hired at Biscotasing. 



We commenced our survey at a post planted by E. Stewart, O.L.S., in 1891 

 on the north side of the Canadian Pacific Railway, between townships number 



