. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . t Bena junction, to Avhich latter it Avasafterwards altered. But the Main South road proper turned south oil this roada mile and a half Avest of this point, and Avas surveyed three years later by via Jumbunna to Andersons Inlet on the south
. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . t Bena junction, to Avhich latter it Avasafterwards altered. But the Main South road proper turned south oil this roada mile and a half Avest of this point, and Avas surveyed three years later by via Jumbunna to Andersons Inlet on the south coast. In 1880 alsohe surveyed Whitelaws Track. WhitelaAv had cut this -packdiorse track,as he called it, from Foster nearly to McDonalds Track, in 187-1-5, and clearedpart of it for a drav road. It v:sis intended at the time for a short cut, AiaMcDonalds Track, from Foster to :Melbourne, but Avas abandoned vhen thegold mines at Foster gave out, though the survey party had reached withina couple of miles of McDonalds Track. In 1881 Lardner surveyed the Drouin to PooAvong road. i>reviously men-tioned, and the East PooAvong joad; and later the Jeetho AVest road fromthe Main South road to Hargreaves surAey of 1878. giving access to Grant-ville on Westernport Bay. In 1883-4 he surveyed the Mirlx)o road fi-om THE ROADS AND HOW WE GOT DEVIATION OX . VIKW UOAD. Ohl (ir:i(|.. I in 7: New CraihThe Olil Kdiiil is sli\-|i on the left ol pirtnrc. 1 in JS. Wliitelaws Track, also the FaiiUaiik road, thus foriniiijr the first connectionbetween tlie settlements of Koninihurra on the west and those of Mirl)0(> onthe east. And so our road system hejxan to dexelop at last. As all this country had heen taken up under the I^and Acts of 18 or1878, most of ii was still held under license. \Miile the laiul was held underlicense the (iovernment could put roads where it liked without compensation,and many of the i)rincii)al i-oads were so taken: hut a little latei. when thepeople bep
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