1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 61 



General Remarks. 



For agricultural purposes, the lands embraced by this season's Burvey are 

 fully equal to that to the south and east reported upon by us last year, not 

 less than seventy-five per cent, being good farm land, needing only clearing 

 and in some cases draining. 



The National Transcontinental Railway line has been located in the 

 townships of Hanlan, Stoddart, Studholme, Gill and McMillan, and when 

 opened for traitic will give access to a vast area of fertile soil. 



Accompanying this report, are a general plan, field notes and triplicate 



account. 



We have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servants, 



(Sgd.) Speight & Van Nostrand, 



Ontario Land Surveyors. 



The Honorable, 



The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



(Appendix No. 20.) 



Base Jj^ne extending from the North-east Angle of the Township oh 

 Purvis, District of Nipissing, to the Interprovincial Boundary. 



Little Current, Ont., November 15th, 1907. 



Sir, — I have the honor to submit to j'ou the following report on the 

 survey of a base line running due east from the northeast angle of the town- 

 ship of Purvis, in the District of Nipissing, a distance of twenty-two miles 

 and thirty-eight chains, to the -'nterprovincial boundary, performed in accord" 

 ance with instructions from your department, dated June 14th, 1907. 



After establishing the north-east corner of the said township by planting 

 an iron post, one and seven-eighths inches in diameter, beside the wooden 

 one, and marking thereon "Purvis" on the southwest side, also the lot num- 

 bers, I commenced the survey of this base on the 29th of August, and ran east 

 astronomically the above mentioned distance to its intersection with the inter- 

 provincial boundary, at a distance of thirty-six chains and eighty-six links 

 north of the ninety-seventh mile post on said boundary. 



Wooden posts, six inches in diameter, were planted at the end of every 

 mile, and two bearing trees were marked "B T." The bearing and distance 

 from the posts to the trees were noted. 



At the end of the third, ninth, fifteenth, eighteenth, twenty-first miles, 

 and at the intersection with the boundary, iron posts one and one-quarter 

 inches in diameter, and at the end of the sixth and twelfth miles, iron posts 

 one and seven-eighths inches in diameter were planted beside the wooden ones. 

 On both wooden and iron ones were marked in Roman numerals the miles 

 reckoning from the initial point at said north-east angle of Purvis. 



The line was run with a six-inch Burts solar compass and checked with 

 three observations for meridian made with a transit at the eastern elongation 

 of Polaris, details of which will be found in the accompanying field notes. 



While returning on the base line to the township of Purvis, all the tallies 

 were carefully counted in order to be certain that there was no miscount. 



