y z * The bench on the north of the Fraser is 50 to 200 feet above neh water, rising in steep clay cu banks. Several large areas are swampy, but cou be easily drained and made good land. Near t river it is cut by ravines. At the mouth of the Torpy on the north the country is rough, broken by small ridges, this being especially noticeable west of the Torpy. Soil is loam with clay or gumbo — subsoil and well watered by numerous creeks. Timber, though damaged in parts by fire, includes” some large cedar, spruce, and balsam. WDast and | west boundaries of the lots through which the Torpy flows follow the top edges of the bench closely. The lower land is good, with sandy loam x or silty soil, covered with small willow, poplar, and spruce, and occasional clumps of large spruce. all. About a mile or more up the Torpy are meadows — | and swamps growing rank grass, and east of these — for 144 miles and for a mile north and south the — land is quite flat, with small timber, easily cleared. On the south of the Fraser is rolling country, ex- — cepting opposite Torpy River, heavily timbered east of Ptarmigan Creek. Clearing would cost $75, to $100 an acre. BrErwEEN Torey anp Goat Rivers. Above Torpy River the land, though bench and | rolling, is somewhat similar to that in Torpy Val- ley. It is not rough, except in spots.