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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1830

5 stories in Sydney's papers

Select Poetry. the Storm. From the Literary Gazette.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1830 · page 4

[?] a ship upon tho western deep, Onc Only which the eye discerns between The chiff and the honzon—for the storms Have made old ocean's realms a solitude,…

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Floods

The Australian · Friday 9 April 1830 · page 3

The rain which has fallen in the interior is evinced by strong freshes from the mountain ranges. They have elevated the Hawkesbury, the Nepean, and their…

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Flood at the Hawk-esbury. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1830 · page 2

For several days past we have had continual rains, which occasioned the rivers to rise, and threatened us with our visi[?]ation, the "flood." At this time o[?]my writing, I can behold from my…

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Floods

The Australian · Friday 16 April 1830 · page 3

The inundations of the Hawkesbury and the Nepean, as might be expected, have done extensive, and in several places serious damage. The settlers about there more…

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The Hawkesbury Flood. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 April 1830 · page 3

SIR, On perusing your journal of the 15th instant, my attention was drawn to a paragraph headed "Flood at the Hawkesbury," and on perusing it, I begleave to…

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