The Poucé-Coupe river and its south branch
enters the tovnship in the southeastern part ané with
a winding course flows northwesterly across the town-
Ships The river bed is stony or gravelly and of an
ave-age width of 3 chains. In the spring or after a
heavy rainfall the river fille to its banks. After
the freshets heave subsided there is generally very
Little water and the stream would average about 1
ehein in width with an average depth of 2 feet. The
banks of the river in the southerly two-thirds of the
tewnship are steep and from 50 to 106 feet high, the
surrounding country is rolling and in general cone
tinues to rise on each sige from the river forming a
valley about © miles wide ané 650 feet deepe From
the eige of the valley on the scutherly side of the
river to the southern and westem limits of the town~
_Ship the country maintains the same high slevation and
eontinues rough and treken. lS#issset creck, a strean
of about 20 feet wide, emerges from a deep gsorge-like
velley in the township te the west and empties inte
the vouee-Coupe river near the southeast corner of
section 22. THis stream is at the northerly limit
of the rough and hiliy country. The height of land
on the easterly side of the river oecurs in sections
25, 26 and 35.

Taken as a whole the township is very hilly
and broken ané Large pertions are unsuitable for
agriculturte

"ne fertile belt of lané kmown as Youce-Coupe
prairie extends into and occupies that portien of the
township lying north of Bissett ereck and west ef rouce-
Coupe prairie. ‘The remainder of the township is more or
Less timberefie In the valley of the Pouce-Coupe river
between the top of the river benks to the lower slopes
of the hills on either side the surface is generally

eovered with seattered po ler, 1 inch to 4 inches ané with

small patches of open. ‘The east half of section 24 is
lightly timbereé with serud peplar and with large open
patches in the northwest quarter. in the creck valleys in
sections <, 5, 6, 5, 9, 16, 21 and 22, fires have swept
repeatedly destréying the olé stends of timber. This
lané is nov covered with a medium stand of small poplar,
Willow and alders. The remainder of the township which
is comprised of hill tops is all densely timbered,

The areas in the western part are covered vi th
popler, spruce, 6 inches to 12 inches and jack pine to
10 inches. @hile the heieht of land inthe southeast
and noxtheast parts has a dense covering of pplar up to
4 inches with thick willows and alders and some old semi~
decayed windfalle