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at alx)ut twtlnty cords per acre. The balance of timber is wliite 

 birch, some poplar and balsam. Farther up the Oniljabika River 

 and south we found a splendid spruce and jack ])ine growth 

 around Robinson Lake. This lake is about eight or nine miles 

 •south-east of the river and flows into the Ombabika River by a 

 stream called Robinson River. This stream flows through a 

 valley of low marshy land, with a rolling rocky country back from 

 the river and well timbered. Two streams flowing from north- 

 east are tributary to Robinson Lake, with splendid spruce along 

 both streams as far as I saw them. The land in this exploratim 

 is not farming land. I put the cut of pulpwood at about thirty- 

 five cords per acre. The balance of the timber is small tamarac 

 and poplar. Ascending the river to Summit Lake and explor- 

 ing both sides of the river, no farming land is found. There are 

 SQme flats along the banks, but they are low and swampy and pro- 

 duce some fine large thrifty tamarac. Back from the river the 

 land is rolling and rocky in the low places. We found splendid 

 spruce, and some poplar, and on the slopes and tops of hills white 

 birch and jack pine. From the forks, that is from the mouth 

 of Robinson River, to Summit Lake, a cut of thirty-five to forty 

 cords per acre is about what we would get there. Then we have 

 a fin^? lot of good tamarac, the remainder of timber being balsam, 

 poplar and white birch." 



On the numerous rivers flowing into the lake and on tlie 

 Nipigon River flowing from it are many water powers of good 

 fall and volume, and which will be useful for manufacturing pur- 

 poses, or in the time, which it is to be hoped for the sake of the 

 forests is not too far distant, when steam power on railways will 

 be succeeded by electricity. The preservation of the forest will 

 mean the life of these waters. 



In the district surrounding Lake Nipigon large game are 

 not plentiful. Few moose or caribou are, found, owing probably to 

 the Indians hunting them recklessly and also to the burnt-over 

 condition of much of the country. It is stated that a few years 

 ago the caribou used to be plentiful, whiles moose were not to 

 be found at all. Recently the moose have boen growing more plen- 

 tiful while the caribou have been disappearing. The country af- 



