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the curve described in the former drive vary also, and 

 the lower guns may possibly be the most favoured. 



Now, in this drive I have depicted a sharp ridge 

 on the upper, and a stout wall or boundary to the 

 moor on the lower side. 



But without supposing any change in the shape or 

 configuration of the ground, we may note a few altera- 

 tions in the formation of the beaters which would 

 become necessary if some of its characteristics were 

 different. For instance, if instead of the sharp or 

 rocky ridge you have a rounded shoulder, merely 

 enlarging the area of good lying ground over the top 

 and extending to a more or less flat district with good 

 spaces of shelter probably ending at a march of 

 watershed higher up ; in this case, unless too much 

 raked by the wind, a good many birds will be lying on 

 the upper flat, and some more on being flushed in ther 

 corrie will be inclined to make up to it against the 

 wind. 



What I have termed the ridge flank must there- 

 fore be extended before the drive begins beyond 

 the point E, and may want an additional man, who 

 had better be spared from the other flank between A 

 and i;. This flank must now take great care to get 

 right round this upper ground, especially as most of 

 the birds lying on it will probably be old ones, which 



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