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hundred miles of canoe journey and numerous portages, some of which are over 

 two miles and one-half in length, to reach my starting point rough, broken, brushy 

 country to cut through, and with almost continuous rain during the months of 

 August and September. 



Accompanying this report are plans, field notes and accounts, all of which 

 I trust will be found complete and satisfactory. 



I have the honor to be. 

 Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) J. W. Fitzgerald, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto. 



Appendix No. 29. 

 Survey of the Tov^nship Outlines, District of Sudbury. 



Orillia, October 8th, 1910. 



Sir, — By instructions issued from the Department of Lands, Forests and 

 Mines under date of the 28th day of April, 1910, we were directed to make sur- 

 veys of certain township outlines in the District of Sudbury. Having made such 

 preliminary arrangements as are necessary to carry out work of that character, 

 we left Biscotasing with our party on May 24th following, for the site of the future 

 (Burvey operations. The supplies and heavy part of the outfit were conveyed over 

 the land portages by the teams of the Bisco and Gowganda Transportation Com- 

 pany, and on the water stretches from the height of land in canoes. Our party 

 followed the old canoe route up Bisco Lake, down Bisco Creek, and thence over 

 the height of land to the Mattagami waters, and down the Mattagami Eiver to 

 Lake Kenogamissee. At the latter point, hearing of a portage route leading to 

 the east across the Kapiskong River and into Lake Papakomeka, thus presumably 

 crossing our westerly meridian at about half way in its lengtli, the ma-in bulk of the 

 supplies were sent across that way, while the remainder of the party proceeded 

 down the river to the Porcupine Portage, and thence crossing this portage to the 

 westerly boundary of the Township of Tisdale and south on that line to Niven's 

 base line at the south-west angle of Tisdale, were in a position to commence actual 

 survey work on the second day of June. 



As it was impossible, owing to cloudy weather conditions, to obtain an astro- 

 nomical observation to commence the work, our westerly meridian beginning at 

 the aforesaid point was turned south from Niven's base line and corrected by obser- 

 vation as soon as this could be obtained. Thereafter observations were taken when- 

 ever possible, but the cloudy and wet weather prevailing during our trip in, and for 

 some days after commencing work on the line, gave place to hot, dry weather and 

 forest fires, and the smoke from the latter proved quite as effectual a blanket in 

 hiding the heavenly bodies as the clouds had previously been. 



