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Forest conditions. — The southern portion of the township was 

 originally covered with hardwoods, now represented by farm wood-lots. 

 In the northern portion conifers were, and still are, more abundant. 

 The areas occupied by various types are as follows : hardwoods 29.8 

 per cent ; poplar-birch 26.9 per cent ; mixed 17.3 per cent ; conifers 

 10.7 per cent ; recent bums 3.2 per cent. 



Anson and Hindon Townships 



Some 15,700 acres along the eastern side of Anson lie within the 

 Trent watershed. Most of this area (62.8 per cent) was once covered 

 with pine, but is now occupied by the usual poplar-birch type which 

 follows burning. The hardwoods cover 22.9 per cent of the area and 

 have been severely culled. The mixed coniferous-hardwood type occupies 

 only 1.5 per cent of the area. Twelve and six-tenths per cent of the 

 township within the drainage basin is cleared land. 



Only 5,000 acres of Hindon are contained within the Trent water- 

 shed. Of these, 3,200 acres — or 62.5 per cent — are now controlled by 

 the poplar-birch type. Severely culled hardwoods cover 1,680 acres, 

 or 32.4 per cent of the area. The remaining portion, 266 acres (5.1 

 per cent) is farm land. 



Harburn Township 



The township of Harburn was not visited by the writer, so he is 

 unable to describe it from a topographic standpoint. The lakes of the 

 township form the easternmost headwaters of the GuU River system. 

 Haliburton lake is the largest body of water and it covers some 2,400 

 acres. With the exception of the southwestern corner, which is under- 

 lain by crystalline limestone, the rocks are gneissic granite. As swamps 

 are more ntmierous than in the other northern townships of the Trent 

 watershed, spruce, balsam, and cedar are more abundant. With 

 regard to the proportion of the area occupied, the forests were classified 

 as follows : hardwoods 58.1 per cent ; conifers 28.4 per cent ; mixed 

 type 12 per cent ; poplar type 0.5 per cent. Only i per cent of the 

 township is cleared for farming purposes. 



Sherborne, Havelock and Eyre Townships 



Portions of Sherborne, Havelock, and Eyre belong to the Gull 

 River drainage system. Their topography and geology are similar to 

 those already described for northern Stanhope and Guilford. The 

 prevailing type in Sherborne is the mixed coniferous-hardwood forest, 

 which occupies 72.5 per cent of the area within the watershed and four- 

 fifths of this, some 8,000 acres, is virgin or semi-virgin. The old burns 



