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wooden post at tlie end of each mile with the number of the mile marked on 

 the west side. At the end of ninth mile we planted, beside the wooden post, 

 an iron one, similar to the above noted and marked on the proper side of both 

 posts, the names of the townships of Sisk and Sankey. 



Returning to our starting point we ran due west astronomically sixty- 

 three miles of base line on nine mile chords of a parallel of latitude, 

 planting a wooden post at the- end of each mile, and at intervals of ndue 

 miles, iron posts were planted in addition. 



From the ends of the ninth, eighteenth, twenty-seventh, thirty-sixth, 

 forty-fifth and fifty-fourth miles on this base line we ran meridian lines 

 north and south, nine miles from the base line. On these lines, posts were 

 planted at the end every one and one half miles corresponding with the depth 

 of two concessions in the new system of township surveys and on these posts 

 we marked the distance, north or south of the base line and at the end of 

 ihe ninth mile of each meridian line we planted an iron post alongside the 

 wooden post, so far as the supply of iron posts lasted. The south angles of 

 the township of Studholme and the north angle of the township of Rogers 

 were not marked by iron posts. 



An exceptionally rainy season impeded the progress of the work and the 

 desertion of three of the packers, near the end of the season, added to the 

 disabling of two other men by accidents, so crippled our transport services 

 that we were unable to continue the work over the large stretch included in the 

 instructions. We, therefore ran — by using flying camps — the west boundaries 

 of the townships of Gill and Auden, but were obliged to leave unrun the 

 twenty-seven miles of base line necessary to connect with the boundary be- 

 tween the Territorial Districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay. 



All lines run were well opened out and blazed, and bearing trees were 

 blazed and noted. 



Astronomical Qbservat^^ ons when required, wecre taken whenever the 

 weather permitted, but during parts of the season the continuous cloudy and 

 stormy weather rendered observations less frequent than was desirable. The 

 ob nervations were not in all cases entered in the field notes. 



It may here be noted that the Azimuth Tables prepared by Mr. F. L. 

 Blake for the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors and published in the 

 Annual Report for 1906 were found of great service. 



Generai- Features. 



The tract embraced by this survey is eighteen miles wide by seventy-two 

 miles long, being sixteen large townships with a total area of one thousand 

 two hundred and ninety-six square miles or eight hundred and twenty-nine 

 thousand, four hundred and forty acres. It lies in the valleys of the Mis- 

 sanabie, Kabinagagami, and Nagagami Rivers and is distant from one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty miles by canoe route north 

 frm that part of the Canadian Pacific Railway stretching from Missanabie 

 Station to White River Station. Access is had by means of canoe routes on 

 the three rivers above named, but all require experienced canoe-men for 

 reasonable safe navigation. 



The surface is slightly more undulating and high lying than that lying 

 to the south and east reported upon by us last season and the swamps are 

 smaller in extent, notwithstanding the exceptionally wet season of 1907. At 

 a rough estimate fifty per cent, would be considered high lying, and, where 

 wet, easily drained, the remainder being also good land, but requiring good 

 drainage. The trend of the rivers being northward the general slope is 

 in that direction, the undulations paralleling the rivers. 



