EEPORT OF THE No. S 



concessions and a side road allowance of the same width between lots six and seven, 

 twelve and thirteen, eighteen and nineteen and twenty-four and twenty-five across 

 the township. The concession lines were run due east and west and the side lines 

 due north and south. 



The survey lines were run in the centres of the road allowances. The lots 

 are marked on the ground by wooden posts planted at the front angles along 

 the concession lines, the frontage width of the lots being twenty-five chains and 

 twenty-five links and the depth of the lots fifty-nine chains and fifty links or as 

 near those dimensions' as possible. 



At each lot line three posts were planted, one being planted on the survey 

 line, one on the south side of the road allowance and one on the north side. The 

 centre post was marked with the numbers of the lots on the east and west sides 

 and with the letter "R" on the north and south sides. The posts on the sides of 

 the road allowance were marked with the lot numbers on the east and west sides 

 and with the number of the concession on the south or north side, accordinsr to 

 the position of the post, and with the letter "R'' on the side facing the road 

 allowance. 



At side roads a post marked " R " on four sides was planted at the intersec- 

 tion of the survey lines and a post on each of the four lot corners and marked 

 with the number of the lot and concession. 



On the township boundaries posts were planted on the centre line and on the 

 side of the road allowance within the township. 



An iron post one and one-quarter inches in diameter was placed beside the 

 wooden post in the centre of the road allowance at each of the following points : — 

 On the south boundary between lots twelve and thirteen, on the line between con- 

 cessions six and seven at the east boundary and at the line between lots twelve and 

 thirteen and at the west boundary, and on the north boundary at the line between 

 lots twelve and thirteen. These posts were marked "R" on four sides and with the 

 numbers of the adjacent lots on the east and west sides and the concession numbers 

 on the north and south sides. The one and seven-eighth inch iron posts at the 

 corners of the township are marked " Sankey " on the side facing the township. 



The surface of this township is undulating and is well drained by the Mis- 

 sanabie River and the creeks flowing into it. 



The soil is mostly clay or clay loam, but to the east of the river there are a 

 few sandy hills. In the swamps the clay is overlaid with from one to two feet 

 of black muck covered with a thick growth of moss. 



About one-third of the township had been burnt over a number of years ago. 

 This burnt land is chiefly in the northeast corner of the township. On the low 

 land the dead trees are still standing, but where the land is dry much of the 

 timber has fallen and in a few places the land has been burnt almost clean. A 

 young growth of spruce and poplar is springing up. 



In the remainder of the township the timber is chiefly spruce, mixed in places 

 with poplar, balsam, tamarac and white birch. The diameter of the trees in some 

 localities runs up to about eighteen inches, but much of the timber is of young 

 growth and is about six or eight inches in diameter. 



A few rock exposures and some pieces of stony ground were seen, but these 

 were not of large area, and as a whole this will be a fairly good agricultural town- 

 ship with only a small percentage of waste land. 



