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and then down the Oba River to a point nearly opposite the southwest corner of 

 the Township of Hawkins, my starting point, where I found cedar post marked 

 Hawkins on the northeast and Irving on the southeast sides and to which I 

 added Ermine on the southwest and Derry on the northwest sides, and ran my 

 first base line west nine miles, one chain and forty-seven links between Township 

 of Derry and Ermine, to establish the southwest corner of the Township of 

 Derry in accordance with instructions, and owing to this point coming in Lake 

 Kabinakagami I located the point of commencing of line between Derry and 

 Lipton by latitudes and departures on an island and continued west along the 

 south boundary of Township of Lipton about nine miles; then returning to the 

 point of commencement of line between Derry and Lipton, I ran north astron- 

 omically to intersection with south boundary of Township of Woolrich, which 

 came in Lake Kabinakagamisis and I established the commencement of line 

 between Townships of Lascelles and Lipton by offsets from south boundary of 

 Woolrich and proceeded to run my second base line west a distance of nine miles 

 from the southwest corner of Woolrich, thus establishing the corner of Lascelles, 

 Lipton, Beaton and Larkin Townships; from this corner I ran north between 

 Lascelles and Larkin Townships to intersection with south boundary of Haig 

 Township, and south between Lipton and Beaton Townships to intersection with 

 the south boundary of Lipton, I then ran west along the south boundary of 

 Beaton Township about nine miles and returning to my second base line, I ran 

 west between Townships of Larkin and Beaton a distance of nine miles to the 

 corner of LarkinJ' Chelsea, Bayfield and Beaton Townships; as this point came in 

 a lake I ran an offset around northwest side of lake and established the point of 

 commencement of line between Larkin and Chelsea which I ran north to inter- 

 section with south boundary of Township of Wicks tead. I then returned to my 

 second base line and ran south between Townships of Beaton and Bayfield to 

 intersection with south boundary of Beaton on my first base line; returning again 

 to my second base line I ran west between the Townships of Chelsea and Bay- 

 field a distance of nine miles and established township corner from which I ran 

 south along west boundary of Bayfield a distance of nine miles, then returned to 

 my second base line and ran north along west boundary of Chelsea to its inter- 

 section with south boundary of Lessard. I also re-ran south boundary of 

 Township of Marjory, part of my contract of 192 L I removed and destroyed 

 all posts, mounds and pits on the abandoned line and am forwarding field notes 

 of new line herewith. 



The east and west lines were all run on chords of latitudes, and meridians 

 north or south astronomically as recorded in the field notes ; frequent observations 

 for azimuth were taken, the records of which are enclosed in the field notes. The 

 lines were cut out and blazed, wooden posts properly marked planted at every 

 mile, with standard iron posts, pits and mounds at every third mile, as shown 

 in field notes, and in accordance with instructions. 



Soil. 



I did not see any land suitable for agricultural purposes, the soil being mostly 

 sandy with stones or boulders, the surface generally being rolling with very few 

 hills. 



Timber. 



Along the south boundary of the Township of Derry east of Lake Kabina- 

 kagami the timber is small, principally spruce, jack pine, beech and poplar from 

 four inches to eight inches in diameter with some jack pine and spruce up to 



