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Floods & storms, 1826

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Lord Byron in a Storm

The Australian · Thursday 16 February 1826 · page 2

Sailors say, that a calm always precedes a storm; and we had reason to give into such presentments, for the wind, which had blown from the south-west, with a light gale, suddenly changed to the opposite point of the compass, and came down with…

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