watered. Settlers with land under cultivation are
doing well with grain, hay, and vegetables, and one
man has a large drove of hogs.

Aleza Lake, 13 miles east of Giscome, 37 miles
from Prince George, has two sawmills, store, and
post-office, and a number of settlers are cultivating
Jands in the vicinity. Hansard Lake, to the east,
is 2 miles long, and between it and the Fraser is
flat land with muskegs. To the north the flat coun-
try continues to the Fraser, and westward of the
lake it rises gently to the north for about 3 miles
to about 2,350 feet, and thence falls gently to the
Fraser. The southerly slope has good clay loam;
on the divide, burned over some years ago, soil is
sandy and gravelly. The slopes are lightly tim-
bered. Settlers who haye cleared and cultivated
land in this vicinity grow good crops; potatoes and
cabbages particularly grow well, and hay and oats
are successfully grown, also garden-truck, including
tomatoes, cucumbers, and corn.

Fraser River from vicinity of Hansard Lake east
and west is in alluvial flood-plain which reaches
greatest width on Bowron River and on McGregor
River above its mouth, an area in which alluvial
material some hundreds of feet deep and some miles
wide has been deposited. It is overlooked by ter-
races, many broad and leyel. The block of surveyed
land north and north-east of Hansard Lake on
either side of the Fraser, with Lots 3035 to 3057
at the northern side, is a typical area of terrace
land, the river being bordered by an alluvial flat
of moderate width overgrown with willows.

Fraser River, with width ranging from 400 to
600 feet, and average current of about 8 miles an
hour, is broken near Giscome Portage by rapids.
The banks are in general high and timbered. On
the west the ground rises more rapidly toward the
heights flanking the valley near McGregor River.
The country in general is covered with thickets of
poplar and birch. There are many reaches of open
and partly open grassy flats and timbered benches
flank the river in places. From Giscome Portage
a road extends about 7 miles to Summit Lake, head
of the waterway connecting with Peace River.

Shortly after leaving Hansard the railway
crosses the Fraser by a steel bridge, and for many
miles the route is flanked with forests, with lum-
bering at various points. The route continues on
the north side of the Fraser until the crossing at
Bend is reached.

McGrecor River.

McGregor River drains a generally mountainous
area with narrow valleys, surveys being confined to