Manson Creek Trail, converted to rough wagon-road to
Tsilcoh River, gives access from Fort St. James. The
Manson Trail, 125 miles to Manson Creek, runs north
across Ocock and Tsilcoh Rivers, over Lookout Mountain
and north through unsurveyed country, generally hilly,
lightly timbered, with flats, wet meadows, and muskegs in
places near streams and lakes, via Destlay and Chuzkeepah
Lakes, Tasincheko Creek, Kalder and Sheshenadji Lakes to
reach Nation River via Wittsichica Creek through a block
of surveyed land west of Chuchi Lake. Another trail,
branching north-east, traverses hilly country with jack-
pine ridges and hills, isolated and in groups, with many
small lakes, spruce-swamps, and muskegs with good soil,
mostly sandy loam, in depressions. Alder and willow
grows thick amongst jack-pine almost to ridge-crests.
Tezzeron Creek drains similar country south and then west
to Tezzeron Lake. Hatdudatehl Creek drains hill country
south-east, then south, from MHatdudatehl Lake, with
Chuius Mountain, 5,020 feet, south of that lake. Country
near Tezzeron Lake is rough and unsurveyed other than
some timber limits on south-west slopes and three sections
in a basin near outlet of Kuzkwa River.

PINCHI CREEK TO TREMBLEUR LAKE.

Surveys reach northward from Pinchi Creek in a belt
from 4 to 7 miles wide, north to Kuzkwa River, draining
Tezzeron Lake to Tachie River. The country is mainly
undulating with slope from hills to eastward, with fairly
flat poplar country near Stuart Lake and Tachie and
Kuzkwa Rivers, broken by a few isolated ridges and
buttes. Indian villages are located at mouth of Pinchi
Creek and Tachie River, with a store opposite latter.
Similar country, unsurveyed, other than a block 3 miles
wide east of Trembleur Lake, extends north-west and
north-east between Kazchek Lake, 2,670 feet, and Inzana
Lake, 2,910 feet. Near Inzana Creek, flowing between
the lakes, is considerable undulating land, burnt off and
reforesting with willow and poplar, a large percentage
suited to agriculture.

Tachie River runs swift in flood. Main obstructions to
navigation are rapids a few miles above Tachie and Grand
Rapids, near mouth of Kuzkwa. The first could be made
navigable for shallow-draught steamers at all times if a
few rocks were blown out and the stream confined to a
narrow channel. At Grand Rapids there is an abrupt drop
of 2 to 3 feet at low water, but the worst rocks have been
blown out and there is a straight run with no complica-
tions, though at high water motor-boats with tows often
have a bit of a struggle and they are lined up. A small
Indian village is at Grand Rapids. Kuzkwa River affords
access for small boats to Tezzeron Lake.

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