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Monmouth Township 



Watersheds. — The waters of Monmouth are carried to the Trent 

 canal by the way of the Irondale and Burnt rivers. A small portion, 

 however, in the southeastern comer is drained southward by Eels 

 brook. Otter lake is situated in the northeastern portion of the town- 

 ship, and contains only 600 acres. The entire water surface of the 

 township is 2,100 acres. 



Topography. — The highest points in the township are in the granite 

 region in the southeastern comer of the township, the region west of 

 Otter lake, and the extreme southwestern comer. These places look 

 really mountainous when compared with the general dissected-plateau 

 topography of the rest of the township. 



Rock and Soil. — ^The geological structure of the township is much 

 diversified, since it contains representatives of nearly all the different 

 kinds of rocks found in the Trent watershed. The greater portion of 

 the rock, however, is crystalline limestone with its various impurities. 

 The deepest and finest textured soU is found in the south central portion 

 of the township, it being an extension of the drift soil, covering northern 

 Anstruther. The upland soils in the other portions of the township 

 are usually thin or, if deep, very stony. Bkre ridges and ledges, are 

 frequently exposed. 



Forest Conditions. — ^The southern portion of the township, with the 

 exception of the southeastern comer, was originally a pinery, while 

 the northern half was, and still is, of the hardwood type, with former 

 pineries on the stream terraces. The old pinery is now occupied by 

 poplar and birch, a tjrpe that covers 38.4 per cent of the township. 

 At present only'i.i per cent of the township is coniferous. The hard- 

 woods, as a rule, contain little saw-log material. They cover 47.7 per 

 cent of the area. The mixed tj^e covers 1.9 per cent, and recent 

 bums 2 per cent of the township. 



Glamorgan Township 



Watersheds. — ^The township of Glamorgan drains into the Trent 

 canal by the way of the Biunt and Irondale rivers, the latter taking 

 most of the drainage. It contains eight rather small lakes, the largest 

 being Koshlong, in the north-central portion of the township, with an 

 area of 770 acres. The water surface of the township is 3,900 acres. 



Topography. — ^The roughest and the highest portion of the township 

 may be fotind in the diorite in the southeastern comer. Greens moun- 

 tain at, the western edge of the outcrop has an altitude of 1,466 feet 

 above sea level, and it stands about 250 feet above the general level 



