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 ===== Ring-Barking, Rabbits, and Then Desert. =====
-Many years ago a landowner on the upper Cox gave a contract for the ringbarking of some thousands of arres on both si,des of the River. The axemen were very thorough; not a tree Was left, even on the steepest and 6toniest hillsides. For a year or so the grass grew thickly and it was kept short and sweet by the sheep. Then came the rabbits, which started feeding on the grass - it was just how they liked it. Dry spells came too, as they do in the course of nature, and in these times the rabbits ate even the roots of the grass. Good seasons came in their turn, but the stock and the rabbits never gave the grass a chance to seed properly, and it could not spread. A good season meant a heavy rainfall, and the water rushing down the steep, unprotected hillsides, over the bare ground, removed the soil, leaving only coarse granite gravel. This has gone on for some years now. The Upper Cox is rapidly becoming, on a small scale, a man-made desert. On the barren slopes huge slabs of rook are exposed, while a few dead trees still stand as a reminder that this was once bush, Already channels 10 or 12 ft. deep are being cut into the hillsides and the river flaws over a broad bed of gravel.
+Many years ago a landowner on the upper Cox gave a contract for the ringbarking of some thousands of acres on both sides of the River. The axemen were very thorough; not a tree was left, even on the steepest and stoniest hillsides. For a year or so the grass grew thickly and it was kept short and sweet by the sheep. Then came the rabbits, which started feeding on the grass - it was just how they liked it. Dry spells came too, as they do in the course of nature, and in these times the rabbits ate even the roots of the grass. Good seasons came in their turn, but the stock and the rabbits never gave the grass a chance to seed properly, and it could not spread. A good season meant a heavy rainfall, and the water rushing down the steep, unprotected hillsides, over the bare ground, removed the soil, leaving only coarse granite gravel. This has gone on for some years now. The Upper Cox is rapidly becoming, on a small scale, a man-made desert. On the barren slopes huge slabs of rock are exposed, while a few dead trees still stand as a reminder that this was once bush. Already channels 10 or 12 ft. deep are being cut into the hillsides and the river flows over a broad bed of gravel.
-Compare this with the Cox between Pulpit Creek and Gibraltar Creek. The same
-sort of country, but a little steeper and too poor to be worth ringing. Consequently
+Compare this with the Cox between Pulpit Creek and Gibraltar Creek. The same sort of country, but a little steeper and too poor to be worth ringing. Consequently it remains covered with the vegetation natural to the type of country. The rock outcrops here harmonise with the ruggedness of the granite gorge beneath. The steep hillsides are covered with trees, leaves and grass. It is a unique stretch of country, the beauty of which is appreciated by any frequenter of the bushlands.
-it remains covered with the vegetation natural to the type of country. The rock outcrops here harmonise with the ruggedness of the granite gorge beneath. The steep hillsi des are covered with trees, leaves and grass. It is a unique stretch of
-country, the beauty of which is appreciated by any frequenter of the bushlands. The Upper Cox would have been the same if 20,000 acres of it had not been
+The Upper Cox would have been the same if 20,000 acres of it had not been denuded for the feeding of 3,000 sheep.
-denuded for the feeding of 3,000 sheep.
 PADDY SEND HIS LOVE AND BLESSING FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON
 AND HOPES TO SEE YOU ALL IN THE NEW YEAR.
-PALLIN,
-GEORGE STREET;
+F.A. PALLIN,\\
-SYDNEY.
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 ==== Skirts Ladies and Mountaineering. ====
-Then mountaineering and climbing firet became popular ladies wore crinolines
+When mountaineering and climbing first became popular ladies wore crinolines and fainted at mice, and it never entered any one's head that they would ever make mountain climbers or ever want to. So all the mountaineering clubs which came into existence were exclusively for men. When at last a few enthusiastic women started to scale the heights they had to form their own clubs. They still dressed in skirts looking like swaddling clothes, but gradually the skirts dropped off and they became correspondingly more enterprising, so that the Ladies' Alpine Club is now just as difficult to join as the Sydney Bush Walkers!
-and fainted at m3oe, and it never cul.:erc,d ay on head that they would ever make
-mountain climbers or ever went to So all the mountaineering clubs which came ire(o
+We are delighted to receive a copy of the annual journal of this Club, a publication both beautiful to look at and interesting to read, an ideal for "The Bushwalker" to aspire towards. The person responsible for this addition to our
-existence were exclusively for msn. When at last a few enthusiastic women started
+exchange list is Miss Dora de Beer, whom our Club had the pleasure of entertaining to tea some time ago. It is contacts like these which are gradually building up an international fraternity of trampers and climbers (Ladies Alpine Club Journal '37.)
-to scale the heights they had. to form their own clubs. They still dressed in skirts
-looking like swaddling clothes, but gradually the skirts dropped off and they became correspondinEly more enterprising, so that the Ladiest Alpine Club is now just as difficult to join as the Sydney Bash Walkersi
-We are delighted to receive a copy of the annual journal of this Club, a
-publication lloth beautiful to look at and interesting to read, an ideal for "The
-Bushwalker' to aspire toward. r, The pereon reopoLeible for this adaition to our
-exchange list is Miss Dora de Br, wilem our Oliel) had the pleas-oro of entertaining to tea some time ?goo It ic contaebs like theee uhieh arc F,ra1d4ily building up an interaatioral fraternity of trampers and climhers (Ladies Alpine Club Journal '37.)
 ==== Good Men Go to the Dogs. ====