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sheep immediately to climb to the tops. What may be termed the 

 normal arterial system of each centre, of each sheep-camp, has also in 

 modern times been affected by such arbitrary barriers as fencing-lines. 

 By them sheep are forced to climb when they would prefer to wind, or 

 in shepherd's phrase, to string to their camps on comfortable grades. 



There are still on the largest remaining paddocks examples of these 



graded narrow paths, but the 

 best, alas ! have been ruined 

 by the abominable utilitarian 

 necessity for subdivision of 

 land. 



Another kind of road is 

 that made by driven sheep. 

 Continual passage in one di- 

 rection of any mass, animate 

 or inanimate, stock, water, or 



blown sand, creates channels alike in their broad general features. 

 As in the case of water, a living stream of sheep moulds and adapts 

 itself to the lie of the land. Flowing through fern and scrub, the 

 torrent is turned aside by the main obstacles it passes over the less ; 

 a way is eaten, not through earth and rock, but through vegetation. 

 Viewed from above and afar, a great travelling drove will, on the levels, 



Showing single current. 



Stock route, showing double current. 



break into countless shallow, rapid, irregular channels ; it will pour itself 

 in masses through choked defiles. On open land it will move slowly 

 forward with broad blunt head, over declivities it will waterfall in 

 cascades, over steep rocks drip drop by drop. 



On closer inspection, too, the channel of a sheep-stream will show 

 the typical scour of water action. There will be found just such islands 



