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Title: 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
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: Gippsland (Vic.) Victoria -- History
Publisher: Melbourne : Pub. for the Committee of the South Gippsland Pioneers' Association by Gordon and Gotch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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who have lived through it orhad an iiilimate l-:nov.Iedge of the forest a> it was then can placi the rightvalue on the pliysical endin-ance. doggid peisex-erancc. and almost Mindoi)timi.-,m thai characterised the early pioneers: and one Ims but lo thinkagain of the c.\t Icnic (lispaiity bet wciMi some of the occiq)at i it wn- iIhmi. to feel the nlnio>t ■^yuq^athy for llio>c who))ut their little all into ;i life of pioneering, to which --onie were entirely un-suit(^d. aid which c;;u-ed nian\ to jo iind.r after \ears (d struggle. (ii;»ps-land has been tridy desii.iiated !he (ianlen of the South. .ind uuicli can.and probably will, be written of the success nnd i)rogress of successfulpioneers, but what about tho-e (»thers who have failed^ \olumes could beAvritten, if only the facts could be unearthed, of the self-saci-ifice and pathosAvhich Idtended the fnilnre and ultimate downfall of sonu-. though l>r- 68 SCRUB CUTTING,
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SCIMT. (TTTIXC SCRUB CUTTING. 69 tiinately few. of the early settlers. Havintr given a description of the variousoccupations of the amateur scrub cutters, a few words about the nature ofthe scrub, or more correctly speaking, the forest, will not be out of place.AVhilst a birds eye view of a Gippsland forest presented something of amonotone to the eve. a detailed inspection revealed an endless varietv ofAvoods. shrubs, foliage, mossy growths, parasitical plants, and decomposedvegetation. To the scrub-cutter the primary consideration was the nature ofthe timber on which he Jiad to operate. This, fortunately, was for the mostpart comparatively soft, though e^en in this respect there was great variety.Bluegum and blackwcod were among the hardest of the larger trees, hazeland wattle being next, and the softest woods were gum saplings, nativeorange, and blanket-wood, the latter being of a very brittle nature. Thetree-fern, owing to the peculiar toughness of its fibrous trunk, presentedgreat

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