Excerpt from Report on the Geology and Natural Resources of the Arkea Including in the Northwest Quarter-Sheet, Number 122 of the Ontario and Quebec Series: Comprising Portions of the Counties of Pontiac, Carleton and Renfrew The area on the south side of the Ottawa is also intersected by several important streams. Of these one of the largest is the Peta wawa which rises near the headwaters of the Muskoka river and flows northeast until it meets the Ottawa about nine miles west of the town of Pembroke. For a large part of its course this river has the. Reputation of being rough and difficult to traverse with canoes. It was, however, surveyed in 1853 by Mr. Alexander Murray of the Geological Survey, who reports that the country thus traversed is largely granitic in character throughout the greater part of its course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.