— on these lakes. Between Kazchek and Rice Lakes, near the trail between them, are some good meadows, which would produce hay if beaver-dams were cut. Near Rice Lake surface is broken and soil, mainly glacial drift on hill, slopes to bottom lands reaching 2 miles from Middle River. Kloch Mountain, between Kazchek and Kloch Lakes, reaches 4,400 feet, with White Crater, north-west of Kloch Lake, 4,800 feet. North and south of Trem- bleur Lake is mountainous unsurveyed country, only sur- veys being timber limits on southern shore. The country between Trembleur and Stuart Lakes, west of Tachie River, is mainly mountainous. Some good land occurs on slopes to Stuart Lake, and several lots have been surveyed north of Tarnezell Lake, reached by trail over the hills 4 miles south-west from Grand Rapids on Tachie River. VICINITY OF TAKLA LAKE. North from Rice Creek surveys are confined to the valley of Middle River, and on Takla Lake the only sur- veys are on lakeside slopes north to Takla Narrows, where the high peaks or Takla Range, with Mount Blanchet reaching 7,000 feet, separate the two arms of the lake. The country is rough and rocky near the southern part. On the east rolling brulé slopes about 4 miles, with sandy soil and poor land, to bordering mountains. About 5 miles up North Arm mountains close in and slope abruptly to the water to near Maclaing Landing, near which a store is operated at Takla Landing. North from here undulat- ing land reaches eastward about 2 miles, with about 7,000 acres of good soil, including many large beaver meadows. Western slope is steep, thigkly clad with green timber. North-west Arm is mountainous on both sides. At north end two or three sections of bottom with good soil are drained by Dust Creek and ten or twelve sections of fair land are found near by, easily cleared, with occasional small meadow-ringed lakes in them. The northern bound- ary of the land division crosses the flat north of Maclaing Landing, the northerly part of the lake and Driftwood River being in Smithers division. The Hazelton—Babine— Manson Trail, with ferry crossing on the lake, crosses on a line with this boundary. BETWEEN STUART AND BABINE SYSTEMS. From west end of Trembleur Lake to Wright Bay on Babine Lake is a low-lying wide transverse valley in which a large block of agricultural land has been surveyed. This pass was the route of a wagon-road in the days of Omineca gold-rush, before travel was diverted to the Hazelton-Babine-Takla Lake and Fort St. James-Manson Trails. Centre of this block awaiting settlement with development of the region is about 12 miles to north of Donald Landing, where the Burns Lake-Babine Lake Wagon-road debouches, and a valley reaches south toward 15 rE