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64 
 
 [part ii] 
 
 No. U. 
 
 REPORT OF WM. OGILVIE. 
 
 MXPLOBATION SUaVET OP THB TUKON BIVKE DISTRICT. "^ ° ' 
 
 Sir, — I have the honor to Bubmit the following preliminary report of the opra- 
 tions of ray exploration Borvey of the Yukon Biver Distriot. 
 
 In aocordance with yoar instructions, dated the I6th of April, 188*7, I left Ottawa 
 on April the 20th and arrived in Victoria, B.C., on the 2nd of May. I at once pro- 
 eroded to make arrangements for tavelling to the scene of ray survey, and hired six 
 men to accompany me, three being required for the survey proper and three for 
 transporting supplies. 
 
 Wo left Victoria on the afternoon of the 12th of May, on the Pacific Steamahip 
 Company's steamer " Ancon," which was so heavily laden that I had considerable 
 difScuity in pursuading the captain to take on board my freight, and party. 
 
 Our trip was a very slow one, we did not reach Juneau City, Alaska, until tho 
 night of the 19th of May, and next day the steamer, instead of going to Ohilkoot, as 
 we had understood she would do, proceeded to Sitka, where wo remained for a day. 
 Fart of another day was spent at Kilisnoo, so that we did not arrive at Chilkoot until 
 the i!4th of May. 
 
 At this point £ made preparations for commend ni:; my survey, but owing to wet, 
 stormy weather three days were lost. I then got the survey started from Pyramid 
 Island, in Chilkoot Inlet, a point determined by the United Slates Coast Survey. 
 
 From this point I carried ihr^ survey across the inlet, and thonce up it, and 
 Taiya Inlet, and the valley of the Taiya River, to the Chilkoot or Taiya Pass through 
 the coast range of mountains. 
 
 I here detailed one of my party (Captain Moore) to explore a pass a short dis* 
 tanco south of the Chilkoot Pass ; this route loaves Taiya Inlet about two miles from 
 its head and fbllows up the valley of the Skaghway River to its source, and thence 
 down the valley of a stream which empties into Lake Tahko. 
 
 Captain Mooie reports this pass as being much lower than the Chilkoot Pass, 
 »nd he thinks it is not any highei at the summit than Lake Lindeman. It is timbered 
 throughout, and he estimates the distance from tide water to the summit at eighteen 
 miles, and from the summit to Lake Tahko at about twenty*two to. twenty- 
 four mites. He has had considerable experience in mountain trails, having built 
 the Government trail in Cassiar district, Brtish Columbi:;, and ho thinks a trail oould 
 be built through this pass much more easily than the one constructed in Casdiar 
 district, and a waggon road more easily than the one constructed through the canyon 
 of the Fraser River. 
 
 I believe that this pass has not been named, and think that the party I sent 
 through wore the first white men who ever travelled throuirh it ; I have tberefora 
 taken the liberty of naming it the " White Pass," afi;er the Uonorable the Minister 
 of the Interior, and I hope the name will be retained. 
 
 Some seventeen mi!)erB passed into the interior by the .Chilkoot Pass while I 
 was in that vicinity. 
 
 The Chilkoot Indians claim the exclusive privilege of packing goods over Ohilkoot 
 Pass, and they demanded $20 per hundred pounds to transport my supplies from 
 the head of tide water to the nead of the Lewis River. I made an agreement with 
 them to pack my outfit and supplies to the summit of the Pass for 110 per hundred 
 pounds, and from there I arranged with my own party, assisted by some iuterior 
 
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 for a day. 
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 rvey. 
 ip it, and 
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 short dia- 
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 ad thence 
 
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 twenty- 
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 I Miniiiter 
 
 BS while I 
 
 rOhilkoot 
 )liea from 
 nent with 
 hundred 
 le interior 
 
 Canadiflti Indians, to transport our goods to the lakes, at a cost of t3 per hundred 
 poiiiids, making a total cost of $13 per hundred pounds for the same distance for 
 wbi' h the Chilkoot Indians wanted S:^0. 
 
 To assist in moving supplies, &g., I purchased some sledges on the Taiya Eiver. 
 Fortunately for the success of this expedition the United States steamer "Pintra" was 
 lying at the head of the inlet when I arrived, and her commander, Captain Newell, 
 showed me every kindness and consideration, and did everything in his power to 
 make things smooth with the Indians. He saw "Clenat," the chief of the packers, 
 several times, and told him that though he had not the power to fix his prices for 
 
 I)acking, he thought he was charging too much, and that it would result in his 
 Obin^ his carrying trade, as he would force white men to seek tome other route 
 into the interior. 
 
 He also told him that he must not in any way interfere with white man doing 
 their owr packing, as he was reported to have done, or molest any of those whom 
 they might employ to pack for thorn, and assured him that I had a permit from 
 Washington to pass safely through the country, and that he would see that I did bo. 
 
 Captain Newell promised me that liis vessel would remain at the head of the 
 inlet until he heard that the Indians b?d satisfactorily carried out their agree- 
 moiit, and had returned to the inlet. 
 
 By the 8th of Juno my supplies and outfit were all carried to the summit of the 
 Chilkoot Pass; the weather then became slotmy and the Indians would not work for 
 some days, aO that it was the 2Tth of June bctore I got everything down to the firbt 
 lake. 
 
 I tried packing with my own party, and succeeded in getting a quantity of 
 supplies down, but tiie toft vol snow soon i:iskI the men up; at one time only two 
 men and myself were fit to do anything. 1 worked as hard as any of them, but was 
 better provided with foolweiii-. 
 
 A good deal of difBoul'y was experienced in carrying'the survey across the moin> 
 lairs, but I am glad to fay it was Huoccssfully accomjilishod. I had. however, to use 
 some very long sights, one of which was six miles in length. In thtte cases I used 
 a long base for the micrometer moasuromo'its (in the case cited one of 188 links wtis 
 used), and it is gratifying to uotci that tho li3ni;tb deduced from the long base differed 
 very little from that given by the 2U link bsifc. 
 
 I find the distances, allitudoH ana doscrip'ions of tho Chilkoot Pa-s, as given by 
 Sthwatkti, considerably in error, and tlio (iantrcr-i desdibod by him rather fanciful ; 
 the most disugreeablo things wo oxpciicrt ed in travoliii g throi f^h tho pass were the 
 rain a» d snow which (oil uimo>l cuiitiiiuoiibly wLm* we were there. 
 
 Be^'iiining I'lom tho summit of Chilk'Ot Pu8(* w.i de-ccnd about one-third of a 
 mile to Crater Luke, tho tall in thut di^tl;rico being by barometer 367 feet. At four 
 and one-half miles from tho summit Mountain Lake, which is about one and a half 
 miles in lomtth, is reached, the tall in tiiis distamo being about 575 feet, At this 
 point the tiisl trees on tho north east sidj of the summit are seen, but they are of no 
 importance, being small and of stunted growth. 
 
 About on»! hundred yuris from Mountain Lake, Canyon Lake is roach<'d. This 
 lake is about one milo lon<j, and ihoro is (]uito a stream running out of it, whieh flow ■« 
 for some distaneo through a narrow canyon with a very rapid fall and emplios into 
 Ltiko Litideman. 
 
 At tho foot of Canyon Lak») wo get into wh it miy bo called timbor. The trees 
 are small, but numerous, and cor sist chiefly of spruco, piteh-pino and balsam. They 
 are, however, of very litth^ uso oxcipt lor iuol. 
 
 At twonty-threo and a-half miles trom salt water we roach Lake Lindeman. Tho 
 distances betwoon this point and tho hoad of eanoo navii^ation, as determined by nio, 
 are as IoIIowk, e.xpiesHed in miles and decimals of a milo : — 
 
 From heail of inlet to — Mir.Ks. 
 
 Uoad ot canoe navi^;ation <>()0 
 
 ibiksTiiiya Uivor 8 ..0 
 
 Hiirnniit of puss 1.^) lo 
 
 Liiiuling on Lake Lindeman.,, , 'Zy'ib 
 
 11-5** 
 
66 
 
 [part IIJ 
 
 I 
 
 From the eammit to Lake Lindeman there is a descent, approximately, by my 
 barometer observatioDS, of 1,237 feet. 
 
 I append the readings of the barometer from salt water up to the summit of 
 Chilkoot PaiiS, and daring three days at the summit. There are no siraaltaneoas 
 readings at the coast, which leaves the correct altitude, as far as it can be determined 
 by my barometer readings, a matter of uncertainty; but while making the survey 
 from the head of canoe navigation on the Taiya Biver, I took the angles of eleva- 
 tion of each station up to the summit, and the angles of depresi^ioD from the station 
 at the summit down to Lake Benuet, so that I can from these determine very closely 
 the altitude of the summit. This I have not yet had time to do, bat will do so wh^n 
 I go into winter quarters. 
 
 On the 12th of July I had finished all my preparations for the descent of the 
 river, and started the survey proper from the point on Lake Lindeman above men- 
 tioned. This lake is about live miles long, about four of which lie on the line of 
 travel into the interior. 
 
 At twenty-eight and one-half rabies from salt water we reach the head of Lake 
 Bennet, of Sobwatka. Between it and Lake Lindeman there is a portage of aboat 
 three quarters of a mile in length, the river being rough, narrow and crooked. 
 
 The upper end of ijake Bonnet is bounded by high mountains, and there is some 
 timber near the head of the lake, then little or none except in the ravines, until the 
 middle of its length is reached, when the lake widens out to about twice the width 
 of the upper end. Here we find flats and valleys ; in the latter numerous large 
 spruce trees were noticed, bu^ they are covered from the ground up with large limM 
 which render them almost unfit toi use. 
 
 About eighteen miles down Lake Bernet we reach the mouth of a large arm of 
 the lake. It extends in a south- wee>terly diiection, and is said by the Indians to head 
 about fifteen miles away in the glacier, from which the westerly fork of the Tuiya 
 River takes its source. At its junction this arm of the lake is about one mile wide, 
 and as far as could be seen up it (about eight miles) it is bordered by high moun- 
 tains. This arm is named by Schwalka on his map the " Wheaton River." 
 
 There is little or no timber of any value at tLd lower end of Lake Bennet, where 
 there is an extensive sandy fiat, called by the minern, " Cariboo Crossing." 
 
 A short distance below Lake Bennet we enter Lake Nares, as named by Schwutka. 
 This lake is shallow, with muddy fiat shores on the west side, covered with nrnall 
 scrubby timber. On the east side, the bank is higher and the timber of better 
 quality ; but there is none of commercial value, even were there a cheap way of 
 getting it out. 
 
 Passing through Lake Nares and Bow of Schwatka, the latter really a part of 
 Tahko Lake, wo reach the mouth of the " windy " arm of Tahko Lake, which I 
 understood the Indians to call Takone. 
 
 l:ieventy-four and a-halt miles from salt water, we reach the lower end of Tahko 
 Lake, and reach what may be called the river proper. Here it has the volume and 
 character of a river, being about 200 yards wide and from 6 to 1:^ feet deep. The 
 country bordering the river is low. 
 
 At IV^ miles we reach Lake Marsh of Schwatka and Lake of the liines. The 
 immediate shore on the we»t side of this lake is flat and swampy, with some small 
 timber, and the water near this shore is shallow. The easterly shore appears to be 
 better, the hilld rise at once from it and slope gently back to the mountains. Oa 
 the west side it is olten many miles back from the lake before a hill of any height 
 is reached. 
 
 We enter the river again at ')9 miles from saltwater. The country along th« 
 shores is hilly, aomettmos rooky, and covered with small timber, oonsisiinff ohiefly 
 of spruce, poplar, pitch pine and birch, but very little of it U fit for anything bat 
 fuel. 
 
 The river is from 150 to 200 yards wide, with a oarrent of aboat four miles ua 
 hoar; it is generally very crooked. 
 
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 At 125 miles from salt water, the oanyon is reached^ At this point the river 
 flows through a fissare in a barrier of basaltic rock, which intersects its coarse. 
 
 The canyon proper is about five-eights of a mile long and about 100 feet wide, 
 with perpendicular walls from 60 to 80 feet high. The current through it is swift, 
 and the water rough, but with a fairly large boat the only risk in running through it 
 would be from contact with the sides, in which case one would be certain to come to 
 grief. The passage through is made in from three to four minutes. About half 
 way through the canyon there is a basin of about one eighth of a mile in length and 
 the t^ame in width. 
 
 Below the canyon the river assumes its original character, the banks being low, 
 sandy and gravelly flats. The river is shallow and rapid, with a few scattered 
 boulders, which do not appear above the water, bat are too high to allow of boats 
 passing safely over them. 
 
 The canyon and its rapids are altogether two and three-otuarter miles long. The 
 last rapid, which is three-eighths of a mile in length, is a bad one, and we had to 
 portage everything round it, and let our boat down with ropes from the shore. This 
 rapid is called by the miners the " vV bite Horso," from the fact that nearly all the 
 water is white with foam. Several parties buve run through the rapid on rafts^ and 
 one or two in boats, but few want to repeat the trip. 
 
 The total f ill from the head of tho canyon to tho foot of the " White Horse '* 
 rapid, is thirty two feet (deduced from the angles of elevations of each station from 
 the preceding or succeeding one.") 
 
 At 142^ miles from the head of the inlet, the Tahkheena Eiver flows into the 
 Lewis from the south-west ; at the junction it appears nearly as large a river as the 
 Lewis. 
 
 The water of the Tahkheena is quite muddy.and it changes the color of the water 
 in the Lewis for some distance below its entrance. 
 
 Looking up the valley of the Tahkheena f;-om its mouth, many snow-covered 
 mountains are seen ; bat in the immediate vicinity of the main river the surrounding 
 hills and ridges are piincipally gravel and sund, covered with small poplar and spruce. 
 
 One hundred and fifty-tive and ahalf miles brings us to Lake Lebarge, which is 
 31f miles long, and ranges from about two to four and a-balf miles in width. 
 
 The general character of the river valley, from ihc canyon to Lake Lebarge, is 
 hilly; the hills close to the river consisting mostly of sand and gravel bluffs, with 
 rocks and mountains in the distance. 
 
 Tho easterly shore of Lake Lebarge is generally rooky and steep, in many cases 
 we might s&y mountainous. The hills on the westerly shore are lower and are 
 better timbured, und tho rooks are of a more shaly nature. 
 
 The junction of Newberry River (Hoot-alinqaa of rivers) which flows from the 
 south east, and the Lewis, is reached at '<i\.^^ miles from tide water. 
 
 From the foot of Luke Lebarge to this point the Lewis ia narrow and swift, ia 
 many p)a",e8 amounting almost to rapids ; the valley is narrow with high rocky hills 
 on both sides. 
 
 The water of the Newberry is a dark brown, while that of the Lewis is blue ; 
 half a mile below the junction two-thirds of the water of the combined streams is 
 brown, and at a mile it is all brown, and hardly diatirguishable from the water of 
 the Newberry. 
 
 Thirty-four miles bolow the mouth of the Newberry and 253^ miles from salt 
 water, the iii<^ Salmon River enters the Lewis from the east. This river ia about 
 100 yards wide and is shallow at the mouth, its %\m9 would not seem to indicate any 
 great length. Looking up the valley of the Big Salmon a distant view is had of many 
 mountain peaks covered with snow, tho presence of which at this aoaaon of the year 
 is proof of considerable altitude. 
 
 011^ The Little Salmon River enters the Lewis from the north-oast 36| miles below 
 the mouth of the Big Salmon ; it is aboat 60 yards wide at its moath and tho water 
 is shallow with very little current. 
 
 L'4bX} i j 
 
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 [part ii] 
 
 At 350| miles from the head of the Inlet Bink, rapida are pasBed. These rapids 
 were named by the early minors on the river the " Five Fingers," from the fact that 
 five masses of rock stand in mid-ohannel and oanse the rapid. 
 
 The river at this point has forced its way through a barrier of very coarse con- 
 glomerate rock, which appears to be of very recent geological age. This formation 
 is also seen along the river for some distance above and below the rapid. About six 
 miles above the rapid I found a seam of coal on the bank of the river associated with 
 a soft sandstone bearing many plant impressions. 
 
 About six miles below Bink Bapidd, what Schwatka calls the Small Bapids are 
 reached. At this point a soft shale crops out with traces of lignite through it. 
 
 Neither Bink Bapids nor the latter mentioned Small Bapids would be much 
 obstruction to steamboat navigation ; they might cause a little delay during high 
 water, and at that time Bink Bapids might have to be " lined " up by boats of small 
 power. 
 
 The Pelly Biver which flows into the Lewis at Fort Selkirk, 410 miles from the 
 Inlet, was reached on the morning of the 13th of August, and at this point I met Dr. 
 Dawson, of the Geological Survey, who had arrived on the 11th. 
 
 The volume of the Pelly Biver at its mouth is apparently less than the Lewis, 
 and it is only about 200 yards wide, whereas the Lewis is from 400 to 600 yards in 
 width above its confluence. 
 
 One 
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 fled som( 
 
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 General Bxmarks. 
 
 On all the length of the Lewis Biver very little timber that would be serviceable 
 for building boats of any sire oan be found, on some of the islands below the mouth 
 of the Newbrrry, a few treee of fair size could be had, some were seen which were 
 from 12 to 18 inches in diameter, but I noticed none exceeding 2 feet; they are 
 very tall and straight. 
 
 Mines and Mining. 
 
 I believe that valuable leads of quartz will bo found in the upper waters of the 
 rivers, but an yet no thoroiigh search for such has been mode. One proHpoctor found 
 quartz on one of the upper lakes which ho had assayed in San Francisco; it yielded 
 $8.88 of go' J per ton, and 92 cents of silver. 
 
 Gold is found almost any whore on the bars and banks along the Lewis below the 
 mouth ot tho Newberry. One minor who had prospected the latter mentioned 
 stream told rao ho found numorouH diggings which would yield $10 per day, but that 
 is not considered pay in this country, owing to the shortness of the season and the 
 cost of getting in and out. 
 
 On tho Lewis many diggingfl have been located which would yield more than 
 $10 a d.iy with pioper appliances, but prospectors hurry further down to find richer 
 diggings, or coarHor gold as they call it. 
 
 At I'l'orlyMilc Creek, to called from tho fact of its being forty miles below Fort 
 Beliancc, coarse gold has been found. Some of tho miners at this point have been 
 very fsuccossful, one party I mot took out 81,100 worth of gold in eleven days, and 
 another 8-iOi) worth in a day .ind a half, but many did not got enough to cover 
 exponHcs. 
 
 Some minors I mot at Ciissiai-bar (27^ miles below tho mouth of tho Nowborry) 
 took about 8fi, 000 worth of gold out of it last year in thirty days, they said jt yielded 
 $30 a day per man, which lor " pan " and " rocks " wawhing i.s a very large return. 
 
 I have no doubL that many hucIi bars will bo found on the 1 owborry and Lewis, 
 1 ut at i)roscnt Forty Mile Creek in all tho cry and very few miners remain on the 
 upper river. 
 
 Thoro are this season about three hundred minors in tho country, of which 
 number about two hundred and fifty arc workirg ,.t Forty-Mile Crook. 
 
[fart ii] 
 
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 let ; they are 
 
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 spootor found i 
 !0 ; it yielded ; 
 
 wis bolow the 
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 day, but that 
 oasun and the 
 
 aid more than 
 to find richer 
 
 les below Fort 
 )int have been 
 vcn days, and 
 3ngh to cover 
 
 le Newberry) 
 said it yielded 
 large return, 
 ry and Lewis, 
 remain on the 
 
 itry, of which 
 
 One old and experienced miner whom I met told me ^hf /« Jad jever seen 
 any country in which the indications were more promising, and that he was satis- 
 TZ Sme Very « rich finds " would yet be made in our territories. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 I have the honour to be Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 WM. OGILVIB, DJ^.S. 
 
 The Surveyor-General, 
 
 Department of the Interior, 
 Ottawa. 
 
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10 
 
 [fart u] 
 
 Babometkb Beadings taken daring the survey of the Taiay Biver and Pass, 
 
 Season 1887. 
 
 Time. 
 
 D«T. 
 
 Junes., 
 
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 do 10 
 
 do 10 
 
 do 10 
 
 doll 
 
 doll 
 
 doll 
 
 doll 
 
 doll 
 
 do 12 
 
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 do 13 
 
 Hrs. Mb. 
 
 
 " 
 
 7.20 
 
 p.m.. 
 
 7.20 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 9.30 
 
 p.m« 
 
 7.00 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 b.OO 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 6.30 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 10.00 
 
 p.m.. 
 
 6.00 
 
 a.m. 
 
 6.00 
 
 p.m.. 
 
 8.45 
 
 p m. 
 
 7.00 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 8.00 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 8. CO 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 10.15 
 
 a.m_ 
 
 7.36 
 
 p.m.. 
 
 8.00 
 
 a.m.. 
 
 2.00 
 
 p.m.. 
 
 Noon 
 
 
 Place. 
 
 A short distance aboTe salt water or higb 
 
 tide and about 15 ft. abore low tide 
 
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 Head of canoe navigation, Taiay River 
 
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 In valley of canjon ~ 
 
 Sheep camp 
 
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 Near timber limit in Taiay Pass 
 
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 At stone-house > 
 
 Entrance to upper canyon 
 
 Summit of Pass . ..~ 
 
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 II 
 
 09 
 
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 II 
 
 
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 29-974 
 
 72 
 
 29 •726 
 
 66 
 
 29 -948 
 
 62 
 
 29-863 
 
 63 
 
 29-782 
 
 48 
 
 29 -803 
 
 60 
 
 29-220 
 
 56 
 
 28-791 
 
 49 
 
 28-848 
 
 60 
 
 28-860 
 
 57 
 
 28-699 
 
 61 
 
 28-626 
 
 49 
 
 28-399 
 
 64-5 
 
 27-678 
 
 48 
 
 26-330 
 
 46-6 
 
 26 -277 
 
 41 
 
 26 -264 
 
 40 
 
 26-247 
 
 46 
 
 26-129 
 
 38-6 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 Clear and warm. 
 
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 Windy. 
 
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 Windy and rainy. 
 
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 WM. OGILVIB, 
 
 Dominion Land Surveyor, 
 
 
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 itemarks. 
 
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 y and rainy. 
 
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