mud-track

Updated: May 14, 2025

I thought it preferable to wait for the afternoon coach; and after being hospitably entertained at dinner by the manager of our Branch Bank at Clunes, I took my place in the coach for Ballarat. We had not gone more than about a mile when the metalled road ended, and the Slough of Despond began, the road so called, though it was little more than a deep mud-track, winding up a steepish ascent.

Samuel Smiles - A Boy's Voyage Round the World