. 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 . out nrany miles from the differentbases, and the condition of these could only be realised by those who had themisfortune to travel them. They were mere ditches of mud, full of roots,stumps and crab-holes, running through a tunnel of scrub over hills
. 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 . out nrany miles from the differentbases, and the condition of these could only be realised by those who had themisfortune to travel them. They were mere ditches of mud, full of roots,stumps and crab-holes, running through a tunnel of scrub over hills andgullies. Through these the unfortunate horses had to struggle with theirheavy packs, splodging along knee deep in mud foi- many a weary mile. InSummer, as the tracks dried, they A\orked up with the action of the horsesfeet into ridffcs about two feet apart, looking on the hillsides likeaigantic ladders. One stretch where the track went up the side of a i-jadhill used to be called The Golden Stairs, though the language heard there attimes did not always favour the comparison. Such was the condition of the country in the matter of roads for someyears after settlement first began. And as the roads given on papei- by theGovernment were, in some places up the sides of precipices and in others in THE ROADS AND HOW WE GOT THEM. 91.
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