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The rock is principally granite, intermingled with serpentine and con- 

 glomerates. 



The soil is a rich, sandy loam and gravel, but so broken with rock and 

 boulders as to be unfitted for anything but timber. 



The Mississaga River and its tributary, the White Eiver, and its many 

 brandies run through the townships, and afford excellent capacity for driving logs 

 and other timber. The streams all run swiftly, but no falls sufficient for large 

 water power were met with. 



Lake Kirkpatrick is a beautiful stretch of water about 6 miles long and from 

 y^ i^ile to 1% miles wide. The Indians call it Anuminabing, which comes from 

 anumina, tlie Indian word for Vermilion paint, which the Hudson's Bay Company 

 sold to them. 



The timber is white and red pine, jack-pine, white spruce, white birch, bal- 

 sam, poplar, cedar, black birch, maple, black ash, small tamarac and black spruce. 

 The white pine is from 12 to 36 inches and the red pine from 12 to 28 inches 

 in diameter, and is mostly of good quality. There is considerable of it in all the 

 "townships, except in the brule portions. In a few places the white pine is scrubby, 

 but of fair size. The greatest amount of pine to the acre was found along the 

 north boundaries of IC and ID. From a mountain on the south side of Lake 

 Kirkpatrick a splendid view of the country was obtained to the north, north-east 

 and north-west, and showed great areas of pine in those directions. From some 

 estimates taken the cut of pine would, in many places, average from 10 to 20 

 thousand feet, board measure per acre. 



An average of about one-third of the northern portion of each of the town- 

 ships, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, and the south-east half of lA, is an old brule and appears 

 to contain little merchantable timber. There is some fair-sized scattered pine 

 (through it which has survived the fire. 



The fire of May, or early June, this season is said to have come from the 

 north down through 2D, and extends also for about from one to two square miles 

 in each of Townships ID and IC and 2C, but has done little or no damage to the 

 white and red pine. It has, however, killed the other timber. 



The jack-pine and white spruce is pretty evenly distributed, and except in 

 the brule is from 8 to 18 inches in diameter. 



The cedar is of fair quality. The black birch and maple is found prin- 

 cipally along the southern limit of the south tier of townships. 



The country is an ideal one for the sportsman. Moose and red deer are 

 found at nearly every lake, while a great many of the streams and small lakes are 

 fairly alive with large speckled trout. The small lakes in the south-east corner of 

 Township 2C are particularly noted for speckled trout. "Wolves are very numer- 

 ous. One Indian in our party shot several. 



The chief guide of the party, John TJndewawadin, a Biscotasing Indian, died 

 suddenly while with us about the 14th of September, and was buried by some 

 of the party, including his brother, Joe Wessigence, at the little graveyard on the 

 east shore of Kin-di-og-a-ming Lake, which is about two miles north of the north- 

 west angle of Township 2B. Lung trouble was apparently the cause of his death. 

 Great care was taken to extinguish all our fires. 



Accompanying this report is the timber map, showing in colors the different 

 areas of timber, also field notes, plan and account. 

 6 L.M. 



