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a number of them had no apparent outlet or feeder of any kind. This is par- 

 ticularly true of sandy country where they occur wiith great frequency. No 

 streams of any size were encountered except the Abnageezy River, and on this 

 no water power was in evidence. 



Game. 



Moose were frequently seen, and apparently are quite numerous, as many as 

 twelve having been seen by different members of the party in one day. Their trails 

 in the woods were frequently encountered and were often so well travelled that 

 but for the absence of blazes and axe cutting would be mistaken for portages. 



No deer or wolves were encountered or indicated, but three bears were seen 

 and their tracks seen quite often. Many of the small lakes were apparently barren 

 of fish, but in others pike and pickerel were readily caught. Rabbits and par- 

 tridges are plentiful and muskrats particularly so. In Ben Nevis and Pontiac 

 fresh beaver workings were seen, but- no evidence of other fur-bearing animals, al- 

 though evidences of the Indian trapper were seen all over the area travelled. 



Canoe Routes. 



The canoe route from the stage road near Larder City to Yema Lake on 

 0. L. S. Newman's meridian was found to be a full day's trip. This included five 

 flat rapids and three short portages on the White River leading to Beaverhouse 

 Lake, a three-chain portage into Kennedy Lake, a crooked creek, a five-chain por- 

 tage, another small lake and a fifteen-chain portage into Verna Lake. 



From the north-west corner of Verna Lake northward a forty-chain portage 

 leads over the height of land into a series of lakes and ponds opening out into 

 Keeth Lake in O.L.S. Newman's meridian, which lake empties into a navigable 

 branch of the Abnageezy River, crossing the north limit of the township of 

 Clifford at the four mile post. 



I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) John E. Jackson, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable, the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. SO. 

 Survey of Outlines of Townships, District of Nipissing, 



New Liskeard, November 9th, 1911. 



Sir, — I beg to submit the following report on the survey of Township out- 

 lines in the District of Nipissing, in the Temagami Forest Reserve, west of the 

 surveyed townships of Hohnes, F'lavelle and Willison, and south of the town- 

 ships of Cleaver, McNeil and Robertson, performed under instructions dated 

 Toronto, May 17th, 1911. 



