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easterly angle of the Block, placing the' posts at the intersection of the two 

 boundaries. The north boundary intersecting the District boundary line, 

 5.90 chains south of the post marked "CYIII." though the last mile on the 

 east boundary was 79.40 chains. 



The posts on the meridian lines are marked on the south side, and those 

 on the chords are marked on the east side. 



The soil wherever found is generally of a very light sandy clay, loose 

 and friable, the colour resembling raw sepia. In places underlying this 

 is coarse sand or sand and gravel bed but in many places rock intervenes, 

 especially around the large lakes and the high ground above them. 



Good timber is abundant only between Sturgeon Lake and Bell's Lake, 

 where I found excellent cedar, spruce, jackpine and tamarack, which would 

 answer the purpose of telegraph poles, railway ties, and much good lumber. 

 The cedar swamps are the best that I have seen in these districts. There is 

 some good birch and pine just east of the English E-iver on the south 

 bound.ary of the Block and extending northward. 



Then the muskegs all contain more or less spruce, though I notice that 

 it is very seldom that large spruce grows in muskegs. 



I saw only one waterfall in the Block being about four or five feet 

 which is at the outlet of Palette Lake on a stream about equal to the Humber 

 River at Toronto. 



The rock is all of the Laurentian formation and I saw no economic 

 minerals. 



The Block is very much cut up with lakes of which Bell's Lake and 

 Mattawan Lake cross the entire Block, and all the lakes are remarkably full 

 of small rockjf islands giving a very picturesque effect. 



Bell's Lake and Sturgeon Lake contain an abundance of excellent trout, 

 white fish and other varieties of fish. 



The survey was completed on the 30th day of June, 1908, and the 

 whole was done in a thorough workman-like manner. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) John J. Dalton, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



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



Toronto. 



Appendix No. 43. 



Rondeau Provincial Park. 



Morpeth P.O., January 9th, 1909. 



To the HorHflurahle, the Minister of Ixmds, Forests and Mines. 



Sib, — I have the honour to submit this my report as caretaker and 

 ranger of the Rondeau Provincial Park, for the year 1908. 



