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from four to five feet and the width about eighty links. I do not think it 

 could be navigated to any extent even with canoes. 



There are many small windfalls, the result of decaying trees, but none 

 resulting from cyclones or hurricanes. 



There are no water powers. 



The only rock outcrop is on lot nine in the fifth concession. Here the 

 rock rises up in a mass covering about three acres in extent and reaching a 

 height of about seventy-five feet above its base and probably two hundred 

 feet above the lower lands to the northward. A sample of this rock accom- 

 panies this report. 



I saw no mineral veins here nor anywhere in the township. 



The weather was generally good with a majority of cloudy days, but 

 only occasional showers. One notable electric and rain storm occurred on 

 the evening of July 27th. Frequent soundings of the White Cariboo Head 

 River showed a depth of from four to five feet, but on the morning after this 

 storm the depth was found to be over ten feet. 



The magnetic variation was from seven degrees to eight degrees, thirty 

 minutes west, except in the neighbourhood of the rock above mentioned. An 

 observation a short distance north of the rock gave a variation of sixteen 

 degrees west. 



The side line was corrected accordingly and as this observation was 

 taken at an intersection it was also used to verify the bearing of the conces- 

 sion line. Several other observations were taken, some similar to the above 

 and some at Eastern Elongation at different points throughout the township. 



The drainage of practically the whole of the Township of Kingsmill is 

 northward into the Township of Mai>ee and is effected through three main 

 water courses. The eastern and southern portions find an outlet through 

 the White Cariboo Head River, which, although the banks are here much 

 lower than they are farther north, has a rapid current and affords an oppor- 

 tunity for good drainage for the area which it serves. 



The central portion of the township north of the second concession ha«j 

 but fair drainage through a somewhat sluggish creek which enters the town- 

 ship of Mabee on lot No. six. 



The western portion is drained by a creek with considerable banks and 

 a fair current in the northern part of the township, but the banks flatten 

 out toward the south and the current is but slight. 



I have the honour to be, 



I. ^^^' 



■ Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) Thos, H. Dunn, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 

 The Honourable, The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



Appendix No. 20. 



Township of Laidlaw^, District of Sudbury. 



Winchester, Ont., November 26th. 1908. 



Sir, — On the 20th day of May, 1907, I was instructed by the Deputy 

 Miriister of Lands and Forests to proceed to the township of Laidlaw in 

 6a L.M. 



