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The surface is level and gently rolling land covered with a dense growth 

 of spruce from four to eight inches in diameter in the swamps, and poplar, 

 spruce, balsam and bircli from four to twelve inches in diameter on the 

 higher lands. The timber at present is only suitable for pulpwood. 



The soil is a good clay loam, mostly covered with moss which varies 

 from one to two feet in depth in the swamps, and from three inches to one 

 foot in depth on the rolling land. About fifty per cent, of the township 

 will require the construction of drains before it can be cultivated. 



No traces of economic minerals were seen, outcrops of rock bei^ng rare 

 and of small area. 



The National Transcontinal Railway when constructed will make this 

 township easy of access, and with the opening up of the country adjacent to 

 the railway, I have no doubt that this township will become eventually a 

 prosperous farming section, but at present is handicapped by the short season 

 and summer frosts. 



Game does not appear to be plentiful though occasionally traces of 

 moose and caribou were seen. 



Accompanying this report are a general plan, timber plan and field 

 notes. 



I have the honor to be. 

 Sir, 

 Tour obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) James L. Morris, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honorable, 



The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



{Appendix No. 33.) 

 Township of McCrae, District of Algoma. 



Eganville, November 2nd, 1907. 



Sir, — I have the honor to report that in accordance with your instruc- 

 tions dated the 6th day of May, 1907, I have completed the survey of the 

 township of McCrae, in the District of Algoma. 



With a party which numbered eighteen men all told, I left Missanabi 

 Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, on June 11th, and, crossing Dog 

 Lake, Crooked Lake and Missanabi Lake, I went down the Missanabi river 

 to the chain of portages leading to Lake Opazatika, and thence down the river 

 of the same name until I reached the south boundary of my township. This 

 is a good route in high water, using large canoes manned by experienced 

 river men. 



The east, south and west boundaries were surveyed in the summer of 

 1906, the north boundary in the summer of 1900, all by A. Niven, O.L.S. 

 Taking Mr. Niven's field notes as a guide, I calculated the position of his 

 five mile post on the south boundary with reference to the side line between 

 lots thirteen and fourteen, and from this I chained east and west, making all 

 of the lots twenty-five chains and twenty-five links wide, excepting lots one 

 and twenty-eight, which I found to be twenty-five chains and nine links and 

 thirty-five chains and thirteen links, respectively. Fifty links were allowed 

 inside each of the four boundaries as half the width of a road allowance. 



