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from the different reserves along the Canadian Pacific Railway and Lake 

 Superior and Long Lake. A few bears were seen, but wolves were neither 

 heard or seen. 



I saw no white or red pine in the country along the line. 

 No minerals were met with. The Laurentian formation was the princi- 

 pal rock along the line. The first limestone met with was at the Flint and 

 English Rivers. There were no heavy frosts during the survey and the finest 

 weather we had was during the first and second weeks of September. I 

 thing the remainder of the line to Albany River could be best run during 

 the winter. 



Herewith will be found the field notes and plan of survey and account 

 in triplicate. 



I have the honor to be. 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) Alexander Niven, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honorable, 



The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



(Appendix No. 19.) 

 Base and Meridian Lines, District of Algoma. 



Toronto, November 20th, 1907. 



Sir, — We have the honor to submit the following report on the survey 

 of certain base and meridian lines forming the outlines of townships nine 

 miles square, lying between Missanabie River and the western boundary of 

 the Territorial District of Algoma, made by us during the past summer, 

 under instructions from your department, dated 6th of May, 1907. 



The instructions were received on the 20th May, and we lost no time in 

 completing the arrangement of details, but, owing to the unusually late 

 opening of spring, it was found advisable to defer starting for a fortnight. 



With ten men from the County of York and vicinity we set out from 

 Toronto on the 5th of -Tune and were joined by ten more men at Missanabie, 

 from which point we went by canoe route about 150 miles to the starting 

 point of the work. This journey was by way of Dog Lake, to the height of 

 land and thence by Crooked Lake, Brunswick Lake and Missanabie River 

 occupied from the 8th to the 18th of June and included twenty-eight port- 

 ages. 



We commenced the survey on the 19th of June, at the end of the ninth 

 mile of our meridian line run last season, north astronomwcally, from the 

 northea.st angle of the township of Devitt, or the northwest angle of the 

 township of Eilber. At the north end of this meridian, we found the tama- 

 rac post six inches square referred to in the instructions marked **IX" on 

 the south side and we re-planted the post, marking thereon the names of 

 the adjoining townships of Sisk, Sankey, Mulvey and Shannon. Beside the 

 tamarac post we planted an iron post one and seven-eighth inches in dia- 

 meter and marked the names of the above four townships on both posts. 



Beginning the line at the northwest angle of the township of Sankey, 

 we ran due east astronomically for a distance of nine miles on the chord 

 of a parallel of latitude passing through the starting point, planting a 



