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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1827

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Destructive Storm in the Highlands. (From the Perth Courier.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 May 1827 · page 4

One of the most tremendous and awfully destructive storms of wind and snow ever experienced in this country, devastated the Highlands of Perth and Inverness-shires, on…

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East Indies. Journal of the Storm and Fall of Bhurtpore

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1827 · page 3

I left Calcutta, Dec. the 7th, 1825, by Dak, to join my corps before Bhurtpore. On the 18th I arrived at Agea, after a most tedious journey of twelve days and nights, during which time I met with great delay…

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The Deluge

The Australian · Friday 12 October 1827 · page 4

The tradition of a deluge has been preserved by the Sandwich Islander. The story, told is this:—That a certain man, many thousand moons ago, was fishing in the sea, and by some curious fatality caught…

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Storm at Paris

The Australian · Wednesday 21 November 1827 · page 4

ST. CLOUD, JULY 3.—Yesterday, at three in the afternoon at the moment that the King and the Dauphin were shooting on foot in the High Park of Saint Cloud, a formidable mass of clouds charged with thunder and hail suddenly…

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