64 EEPORT OP THE No. 3 



Our second meridian line was run from a point in our second base line 



11 miles and 76 chains and due east of O.L.S. Speight's meridian line, north 

 astronomically 5 miles, 78 chains and 56 links and continued south astronomically 



12 miles. 



Our third base line was run from a post in our first meridian line 6 miles 

 south of our second base line and due west astronomically 6 miles, 4 chains and 

 35 links of O.L.S. Speight's meridian line and continued east astronomically 

 11 miles 74 chains and 20 links. 



We found it necessary to run the third base line from the point above men- 

 tioned, as we were unable to find the 54th mile post on O.L.S. Speight's meridian 

 line. The entire neighborhood of this post has been swept by fire and the burnt 

 trees all blown down. We intersected O.L.S. Speight's meridian line 7 links north 

 of the 54th mile post. 



Physical Featuees. 



The entire area which we covered with these lines is very similar in its 

 topography. For the most part it is made up of high sand and gravel hills of 

 glacial origin with intervening swamps and muskegs. These ranges of hills run 

 for the most part in northwesterly and southeasterly directions. Such rock 

 exposures as we encountered were granite, with the exception of a few outcroppings 

 of diabase on our second meridian between Township 22, Eange 18 and Township 

 11 H. There was no evidence of prospectors or lumbermen in the district, possibly 

 on account of the difficulty of access. 



Timber. 



The timber which we encountered was for the most part spruce and white 

 birch. On some of the ridges and sand plains we encountered groves of jack 

 pine. The entire area is heavily timbered, accompanied by a dense undergrowth 

 of alder and moose maple. The only stand of timber of commercial value which 

 we discovered, is in the neighborhood of Pine Lake in Township 22, Range 8, and 

 Township 11 H. On the shores of this winding lake there is a stand of white 

 pine of considerable extent. The trees average at least 30 inches in diameter 

 and are sound to the core, and extend as far as the eye can reach from the shores 

 of this lake. There are practically no other trees in this vicinity than the white 

 and red pine. 



Waters. 



There is only one waterway worthy of mention, viz. : the Montreal Eiver. 

 It rises in a lake in Township 12 H and flows as a small and shallow stream in 

 a southwesterly direction and does not become navigable even for canoes until it 

 crosses our second meridian line. From this point southward it is easily navigable 

 at all times in the open season. It flows through a great many small lake expansions 

 in its course. In Township 23, Range 19, it is joined by a tributary from the 

 northwest which passes O.L.S. Speight's meridian line a few chains south of the 

 60th mile post. This branch is a swift small stream winding through a swampi^ 

 valley. There is, however, at all seasons of the year sufficient water flowing in it 

 to carry canoes. We crossed numerous small lakes on the various lines, but none 

 of them are worthy of mention. 



