4.  By far the greater portion of the territory in question is composed of the highlands in which the streams that flow to the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic take their rise.  With but three exceptions no part of this is less than 1,000 feet above the level of the sea.  It is a perfect labyrinth of small lakes, cedar and alder swamps, and ridges covered with a thick but small growth of fir and spruce, or, more rarely, of birch.  No portion of it appears to be fit for tillage.

5.  In respect to timber, it was found that the pine, the only tree considered of any value, ceased to grow in rising from the St. Lawrence at less than 1,000 feet above the level of the sea.  Only one extensive tract of pine was seen by any of the parties; this lies around the sources of the St. Francis, and may cover three or four thousand acres.  This river, however, discharges itself from Lake St. Francis through a bed of bowlders, and is sometimes wholly lost to the view.  This tract, therefore, although repeatedly examined by the proprietors of sawmills on the St. Lawrence and the St. John, has been hitherto found inaccessible.  The pine timber on the seigniory of Temiscouata has been in a great degree cut off or burnt by fires in the woods.  There is still some timber on the waters of Squattuck, but it has been diminished by two or three years of active lumbering, while that around Tuladi, if it were ever abundant, has disappeared.  It would, however, appear from report that on the waters of the North Branch of Restigouche to the eastward of the exploring meridian there is some valuable timber.  This is the only portion of the district which has not been explored.

6.  As to the valley of Green River, the engineer who has already been quoted reports as follows: 

“This river has had the reputation of having on it large quantities of pine timber, but as far as I have been able to judge it is small and rather sparsely scattered along the slopes of the ridges.  Above the third falls of the river, which are rather more than 30 miles from its mouth, there is scarcely any to be seen.  Some of the Madawaska settlers, who have explored nearly every tributary of the river, report that there is good timber on some of them.  Judging from the language that they used in relation to some that I saw myself, I infer that what they call good would not be so considered by the lumbermen of the Penobscot.  The people who lumber in this vicinity do it on a small scale when compared with the operators in Maine.  They rarely use more than two horses to draw their lumber to the stream, so that a tract which would not afford more than a month’s work to an extensive operator would keep one of these people employed for years.”