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General Desceiption. 



Generally speaking the surface is level and in places undulating. The main 

 streams which drain the area are the Pegatchewan, Bad, Trout, Dog and Flint 

 Rivers. 



The river valleys are narrow and range from ten to fifty feet below the 

 general level of the surrounding country. Much of the land appears wet, but 

 except on the boundary between the townships of Bicknell and Burrell, where 

 from Mileage 5 to 8, a large muskeg occurs, we found nowhere more than eighteen 

 inches of moss and peat, and on the higher ground not more than three inches. 

 In our estimation sixty-five to seventy per cent, of the land embraced by the survey 

 may be classed as good farm land, and when access by means of the railway is 

 completed settlement will begin. The whole of this district lies within the clay 

 belt. 



Canoeable rivers having a few small tributaries occur about every ten to 

 fifteen miles east and west, and flow in a north-easterly direction. Few lakes 

 were seen. * 



The southern and eastern part of the tract surveyed was burned aboijt ten to 

 fifteen years ago, and nearly all the timber destroyed. On the remainder of the 

 tract the timber is the average timber found on the clay belt. 



Accompanying this report are a plan and field notes of the entire survey, also 

 accounts in triplicate. 



We have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servants, 



(Sgd.) Speight & van Nostrand, 



Ontario Land Surveyors. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests & Mines, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 19. 



Survey of Township Outlines, District oe Algoma. 



. Ortllia, December 13th, 1912. 



Sir, — With the object of carrying out yonr instructions for the survey of 

 certain township outlines in the District of Algoma, bearing date the 13th of 

 June, 1912, our party left Missinaibi with the necessary equipment for the work 

 on the 25th of July following. The route followed was up the east arm of Dog 

 Lake; thence across a short portage into Crooked Lake, where another short 

 portage leads into Missinaibi Lake; and thence to the Missinaibi River, down 

 which we travelled to a point where this last stream crosses the meridian run by 

 O.L.S. Speight in 1910, between XVIM. and XVII. M. posts on that boundary. 

 Such supplies as were required for that purpose were then taken by canoe up 



