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The breadth of this stream varies from one hundred to two hundred feet, 

 depth four to six feet with generally fair current and banks about eight to ten 

 feet in height. Opazatika Lake, with an area of about twenty-five square 

 miles, would serve as a natural reservoir, but its low shores and numerous islands 

 would suffer if an attempt were made to increase to any considerable extent 

 the natural elevation of the water. 



Missanabie Biver has a breadth ranging from three hundred to five hundred 

 feet with depth about ten feet. Its current in general is about one and a half to 

 two miles an hour, with the exception of a stretch of about fifteen miles of 

 what is known as "swampy ground," where the flow is almost imperceptible. 

 The banks are usually about ten feet high, although in some places they attain 

 forty to fifty feet. The Lake of the same name covers about fifty square miler^, 

 its extreme length being twenty-six miles. Its shores are chiefly rocky, rising 

 gradually, and capable of an elevation of water to four or five feet without 

 causing much flooding. Brunswick Lake, a fine sheet of water with extreme 

 length of fourteen miles and breadth of one-half to two miles, covers an area 

 pf about twenty square miles, and is dotted with islands. Its chores are 

 generally rocky with gradual slope, but along the south-west bay are low lying. 

 Brunswick River, which flows from this lake, has an average width of about 

 one hundred feet and depth eight to ten feet. The current is generally slow, 

 but in the three miles above its junction with the Missanabie River rapids and 

 falls amounting to about twenty feet would furnish a fair water power proposition. 

 The ruins of the old Hudson's Bay Company's Brunswick House Post on the west 

 shore of the lake of that name are still to be seen about three miles south from 

 the mouth of the river. Chief amongst the falls and rapids on the Missanabie, 

 within the scope of this survey are Island Falls, with a head of ten feet, about 

 one mile east of the 16th mile post on the main Meridian Line; Green Hill 

 Portage occurring at the 19th mile post, has a rapid about one mile in length 

 with a total descent of twenty to thirty feet; St. Peter's or Split Rock Falls,, 

 situated about one mile west of the 23rd mile post, with a fall of twelve feet, 

 and St. Paul's Palls, about four miles east of the 28th mile post, with a head 

 of twenty feet. 



Mattawitchewan, or Albany Branch, River, from one hundred to two hundred 

 feet in width and four to six feet in depth has, as indicated by its Indian name, 

 numerous minor falls and rapids. A unique feature of this stream is that its 

 source is the Oba River, the divided waters of which flow in opposite directions 

 from this source. The located line of the Canadian Northern Railway crosses 

 the smaller stream near this intersecting point. The shores of the Mattawitchewan 

 are low lying, but no lake expansions occur. 



The Oba River is a stream about two hundred feet wide and six to eight feet 

 deep with banks generally about eight feet high and fair current. A considerable 

 number of small falls were noted. "With Oba Lake as a reservoir, some eleven 

 square miles in extent, those in the upper part can be utilized. The lake contains 

 numerous islands and is flanked on the north-west by a range of hills which add 

 to its beauty. At the source of the Mattawitchewan, the Oba, as before noted, 

 yields a part of its waters to the former, the remainder flowing south-westerly 

 to form the chief tributary of the Kabinakagami. 



The Kabinakagami River on the western verge of this survey is a stream 

 differing little from the Oba, has falls and portages very similar to those above 

 described and is regulated in its flow by Kabinakagami Lake, with an area of 

 about thirty square miles, and containing many islands. 



