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the small creek entering the main river near this point, and which we found to be 

 navigable with some difficulty, to near the crossing of our first base line com- 

 mencing at the post at XV. M. on above meridian. The survey of the first base line 

 was commenced from the above post. The main part of the supplies were taken 

 on down the river to the portage leading from the Missinaibi to the Fire River at 

 a point about three-quarters of a mile above the crossing of our second base line 

 run from XXIV. M. Where this portage leaves the river the country has been 

 burned over for some distance back and the trail was blocked with heavy windfall. 

 We found it necessary to cut this portage out in order to transport canoes and 

 supplies across to the Fire River. This portage is about two and a quarter miles in 

 length, and with the exception of the first part, where there is a steep rise for 

 fifteen chains or so, is comparatively level. The latter .river afPords a good canoe 

 route with few obstructions as far as followed, and also furnishes abundant exer- 

 cise in making headway against its stiff current. At about a mile west of our first 

 meridian the Fire River is joined by a fair-sized creek known as Pajogwin Creek, 

 v/hich flows from a lake of the same name. The latter creek was used for transport 

 for a distance of about one and a half miles north of our second base line where a 

 portage iwo miles long leads to the southerly end of the above lake. This lake is 

 crossed near its northerly end by the Canadian Northern Railway, and the creek 

 entering it from the west is followed closely by that line. From this lake westerly 

 to Lake Minnapooka it is mostly a case of portage, as the creek is shallow and 

 rocky. From the westerly arm of the narrow recurved lake known as Minna- 

 pooka and at its northerly extremity a portage route leads northerly to a small lake 

 known as Bommerang Lake, and thence westerly through a series of small lakes 

 or ponds into Lake Imnokguameguea, a long narrow lake lying nearly north and 

 south and debouching north through a small river of the same name. Travelling 

 south on this last mentioned lake, which is crossed by our third base line near 

 VI. M. on the south boundary of Walls, a portage route leads across to the Oba 

 River and thence into Oba Lake and Loch Alsh, and from the latter there is a 

 portage into a creek flowing into the vest arm of Dog Lake. This route was 

 followed on our return trip after completing the survey bringing us back to Missin- 

 aibi from the west. 



Our first base line was commenced from the point marked by iron and spruce 

 posts at XVM. on the meridian run by O.L.S. Speight in 1910, and run due 

 west astronomically for a distance of nine miles. From the latter point our first 

 meridian was turned due north and run to the intersection with our second base 

 line and thence continued for nine miles north of the latter base and our third 

 base line turned due west and run through to the meridian run by O.L.S. Patten 

 In the current season. Our second base line was run due west from the post 

 planted by O.L.S. Speight in 1910 and marked 47 chains on the east bank of 

 the Missinaibi River, said post being planted on a line run due west from XXI VM. 

 on the meridian by O.L.S. Speight in 1910, and continued west a distance of 

 nine miles from the intersection of our first meridian and from the last men- 

 tioned point our second meridian was turned due north. Our fourth base line 

 was turned due west from a point on our second meridian distant eighteen miles 

 north of our second base line and run to intersect the meridian run by O.L.S. 

 Speight in 1910 continued south by O.L.S. Patten during the current season and 

 forming the westerly boundary of the township of Walls. On meridian and base 

 lines so run, wooden posts six inches square were planted at intervals of one and 

 one-half miles- dating from the initial points at the intersections of base and 



