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Floods & storms, 1809

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FLOOD at HAWKESBURY

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 4 June 1809 · page 2

Further accounts of this disaster state that the first perceptible rise in the River took place on the afternoon of last Thursday se'nnight, when it rose at the rapid rate of 4 feet per hour until the…

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