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The first three miles is broken with rocky ridges and occasional tracts of 

 boulders and sand. In some of the lower tracts there is good clay land. From 

 tl\e third mile to the end of the twelfth mile it is mostly clay land with a few 

 ridges of boulders and sand. 



From the twelfth mile to the boundary there is considerable sand and 

 gravel and boulders with occasional tracts of clay. 



The country generally is rolling. In the sixteenth mile there is an ele- 

 vation of about one hundred feet. A very small percentage is muskeg. 



Probably one-half of the country is fit for agriculture. 



No indications of mineral were found. 



The timber is black spruce, poplar, jack pine, balsam, white birch and 

 balm of Gilead, also dry tamarac. 



The black spruce, balsam and birch is from six to thirteen inches in 

 diameter, poplar from six to twenty inches, and the jack pine mostly from 

 five to fifteen inches. Some jack pine was found twenty-four inches in 

 diameter in the fourteenth mile. There is very little balm of Gilead. The 

 tamarac is fairly sound and a good size. 



The magnetic variation for the first ten miles is about nine degrees and 

 forty-five minutes west. The balance of the line averages about ten degrees 

 west. 



At fifty-three and sixty-two one-hundredths chains, on the east bank of a 

 creek, in the fourth mile, a good pack trail to Lake Abitibi was crossed. It 

 follows southerly along the east bank to about half a mile from the lake. It 

 then crosses the creek and comes out on the west bank at the mouth. The 

 distance along this trail from the base line to the lake is about three miles. 



At forty-seven chains in the eighteenth mile, the line runs between two 

 huge granite boulders lying close together on the east bank of a creek. The 

 details are shown in the field notes. This will be a landmark for centuries 

 to come. 



Some delay was caused by the heavy rains. On the 18th of September, 

 I returned to the township of Purvis and after a few days spent in completing 

 that township I commenced my return journey on the 27th of September. 



In the sandy portions of the country blueberries are very plentiful. 



Accompanying this report will be found field notes, plan and account. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) T. J. Patten, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honorable, 



The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



(Appendix No. 21.) 



Certain Township Outlines, West of the Montreal River, in the 

 Temagami Forest Reserve, District of Nipissing. 



Toronto, Ontario, December 12th, 1907. 

 Sir. — I have the honor to submit the following report upon the survey 

 of certain township outlines, west of the Montreal River, in the Temagami 

 Forest Reserve, made by me under instructions from your department dated 

 the twenty-seventh day of May, 1907. 



