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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, ipi6. 



The Second, or Southern, Sub- 

 division of the Upland .Country 

 sloping to the south end is mostly 

 drained into the Albany River. On 

 it there is little soil of any kind over 

 the rocky hills. The lakes are ir- 

 regular bodies of water filling larg- 

 er and smaller depressions in the 

 rock itself, and cover a much 

 larger portion of the surface than 

 in the country farther n o r t h. 

 Swamps are not so numerous or ex- 

 tensive as in the northern country, 

 their places being generally taken 

 by the lakes which fill the depres- 

 sions. Clay or clayey soil is almost 

 absent, for instance, at the Trading 

 Store on Cat Lake there is nowhere 

 in the vicinity enough clay to chink 

 the cracks between the logs. 



The trees are mostly small black 

 spruce, tamarack and poplar. Bank- 

 sian pine is not abundant, but there 

 are a few groves of white spruce 

 here and there on the hills and on 



the banks of the streams. Where 

 trees are growing on the hills they 

 seem to be supported either by the 

 matting together of their roots, or 

 by sending these roots down into 

 the cracks in the rock. In some 

 places such trees as were standing 

 presented the appearance of grow- 

 ing out of the smooth bare rock, 



Fczv Cords Per Acre. 



Where the timber is so irregular- 

 ly distributed as it is in this rocky 

 country it is difficult to make a ra- 

 tional estimate of its quantity, but 

 taking the whole surface area into 

 consideration I think that it might 

 average from 3 to 5 cords to the 

 acre. 



The Littoral Plain extends from 

 the border of the Interior Rocky Up- 

 land down to the shore of Hudson 

 Bay. In some places it is underlain 

 by granite and other rocks of Pre- 

 Cambrian age, and in other places 



J. B. T. Photo. 



White Spruce on the bank of the Fawn River in the Archudsonian Swamp. 



