Dominion of Canada, Province of Ontario Information for intending settlers. The farming lands of Algoma and North Nipissing. A short description of those parts of the districts best adapted to agricultural purposes.

Lakes, Rivers and Agricultural Capabilities.( )n the north bank of the Mattawa a range of hills, of no great elevation, runs nearly the whole way from Trout Lake to the mouth, and between their base and the margin of the water there are good mixed wood flats, with elm, ash, maple, and a few oaks ; but the slopes produce soft woods chiefly, the prevailing species being red pine.To the north of Upper Trout Lake there is an extensive spread of flat hardwood country running in an east and west direction, possessing a good soil, consisting of loam in some places and clay in others, and the timber, in a great measure, composed of black birch, maple and basswood.Associited with this tract is another, at the distance of five miles on the west side of Seven League Lake, on the Ottawa, between the Mattawa River and Lake Temiscaming, running in a south-westerly course to the vicinity of the Mattawa, and reaching as high as the Galere on Lake Temiscaming, though it is not there much nearer the lake than it approaches the river lower down.Lake Temiscaming, a magnificent stretch of navigable water, the largest and deepest on the wmole course of the Ottawa, extends seventy- five miles without any obstruction to vessels of the largest tonnage.It consists of three lakes, the lower, middle and upper, connected by narrow straits.The Upper Lake extends from Fort Temiscaming to the " Head."This beautiful sheet of water has all the characteristics of a true lake.It is from six to eight miles wide, indented with deep bays, bold promontories, steep cliffs and low banks, and is studdei with picturesque islands, two of which are of considerable size.The Montreal River, its largest tributary, as regards both extent and volume, takes its source at the northern height of land, flows for about sixty miles in an easterly direction, and sixty miles more south-easterly, and discharges into Middle Lake by several mouths.After traversing the Township of Widdifield, on the north-east shore of Lake Nipissing, the land descends gradually to the north, showing a level country of hardwood timber, with here and there some rock, and generally a good loamy soil.Turning east, between townships 17 and 13,* on the nineteenth mile from the boundary of Springer, the country is flat in some places, but generally undulating, with fair soil.From the twenty-first to the forty, fourth mile on this line, there is a good tract of country with rolling land and good soil, fit for farming purposes, the timber being chiefly maple and black birch, of large growth and good quality, with some good scattering pine.The Township of Widdifield (No. 17) is nearly all good hardwood land, and is by far the best township in this section of the country.Finer hardwood bush is rarely seen.There are a few bass-wood trees, iron, wood in some places, aad a grove of beech on the east boundary, a few miles north of Trout Lake.Townships 22, 23, 27 and 28, contain a large percentage of good land, with considerable pine.Townships 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18 also contain a fair percentage of good land, with very little pine.The timber is chiefly balsam, spruce, birch, with occasional patches of hardwood.The Jocko River runs eastward through a fine tract of country to the River Ottawa.Sturgeon River, emptying into Lake Nipissing, is a fine deep stream, having an average breadth of six chains to the first fall, about six miles from its mouth.The Veuve, or Widow Paver, empties into Lake Nipissing, about four miles west of Sturgeon River.Lake Nipissing lies immediately above the 46th parallel of latitude, and across the 80th of longitude.In form it is very irregular, but has an extreme length, east and west, of about forty miles, and a maximum breadth, north and south, of about twenty miles.Its area in round numbers is about 300 square miles.*These numbers have reference to an exploration made by the Department ofCrownLands in 1882, and are applied to townships lying east of the Township of Springer and the Indian Reserve, which, with the exception of Widdifield, have been outlined, but not surveyed or named.

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