1008 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS' AND MINES 113 



The rocks seem to be all of granite formation and I saw no mineral of 

 any kind. 



There are no mill sites nor large streams but lakes are very numerous, 

 probably one hundred in the block abounding in pike and pickerel. 



Block VI. has but little agricultural land and generally is very similar 

 to Block V. though the hills are generally much higher than in Block V,, 

 being as much as eighty or one hundred feet in some places. This block 

 has also been burnt over about twenty-five or thirty years ago, though timber 

 is very much more abundant here than in Block V. There are a few trees of 

 white pine eleven miles east of the District boundary line, of about thirty 

 inches diameter, being the only white pine seen in either block. But in Block 

 VI. there is a good deal of jackpine and spruce, fourteen inches in diameter 

 scattered through the block; but no large solid masses and is chiefly found 

 along the south boundary of the block and east of Selwyn Lake. There is 

 also about a square mile of jackpine on the east side of Narrow Lake, and 

 north of the Wonwong River; windfall is very general. This block is also 

 full of lakes. 



There are no water falls except at the outlet of Rock Lake at the east 

 end of Selwyn Lake, and there there might be found a good mill site, judg- 

 ing from the great amount of water flowing into the lakes above it (though 

 I have had no opportunity of seeing it). 



The English River passing through this block, is more like an extension 

 of Selwyn Lake than a river, and is navigable for steam tugs for about 

 twelve miles to the north. 



The Wonwong River is navigable for canoes up to its intersection with 

 the south boundary line of this block, and there are several good canoe 

 routes to the north boundary of Block VI. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) John J. Dalton, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



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



Toronto. 



Appendix No. 42. 



Block VII. of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Grant, Districts of 

 Thunder Bay and Rainy River. 



Weston, Ont., August 19th, 1908. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit my report of the survey of Blo^cik. 

 VII. of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company's Land Grant (Chap. 

 18, 4 Edw. VII.) made under your instructions of the 30th day of May, 

 1907, which I commenced on the 28th day of May of this year by the south 

 boundary, east three miles and west three miles from the post marked XCx, 

 on the boundary line between Thunder Bay and Rainy River Districts. 



I then ran the western boundary of the Block due north 18 miles, then 

 the northern boundarj east six miles, then south eighteen miles to the south- 



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