1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 83 



A little soutli of the centre of the township there is a large swamp 

 extending from lot six to lot twenty-four, and about two miles in width at 

 the centre. This swamp is thinly timbered with small, scrubby trees, and 

 the ground is wet and mossy. 



The remainder of the township consists of low ridges of dry land and 

 intervening stretches of spruce swamp. 



The soil is clay, and in the swamps the clay is overlaid with black muck 

 varying from a few inches to a foot or more in depth and with a thick growth 

 of moss. The swamps are not wet. 



This land is well drained by a number of small creeks, and when cleared 

 will be good farming land. 



No rock exposures were seen in the township. 



Taking the township as a whole, probably three-fourths of it is suitable 

 for farming, the remainder being swampy. 



The timber is chiefly poplar and spruce with some balm of Gilead, white 

 birch, tamarac and balsam. The poplar is of good quality and in size runs 

 from about twelve inches to twenty-four inches in diameter. The spruce as 

 a rule is not large, very little of it being over twelve inches in diameter, and 

 where the growth is large the trees are often thin on the ground. The town- 

 ship as a whole is not heavily timbered. 



The summer of 1907 was warm and showery, with a great deal of cloudy 

 weather, and on that account it was difficult to get astronomical observations. 



There was no summer frost. 



Game was not plentiful. A few moose were seen, but no other large 

 animals. 



Accompanying this report are the field notes of the survey, a map of 

 the township, and a timber plan, all of which I trust will be found satis- 

 factory. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) James Hutcheon, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honorable, 



The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



(A/ppendix No. 27.) 



Township of Colquhoun, District of Algoma. 



Orillia, November 20th, 1907. 

 Sir,- — Pursuant to the carrying out of your instructions for the survey 

 of the township of Colquhoun, in the District of Algoma, dated the 20th 

 day of May, 1907, our party left Orillia on the 17th day of June, following, 

 prepared to proceed to the locality of the work. Having been assured upon 

 inquiry from the officials of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railn 

 way that the line was in fair working shape as far as McDougall's Chute, we 

 determined to go in by that route, thus cutting down the length of the canoe 

 trip and saving time as compared with the Mattagami route. Owing to the 

 usual delays incident to travelling over a railway in course of construction 

 and in getting supplies and men to that point, it was the 25tli of the month 

 before we got our canoes into the Black River at a point about two miles 



