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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1833

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Original Poetry. the Winged Serpent of the Deluge

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 March 1833 · page 4

The deep—the mighty deep—the world of waves, Rolls on in gloomy billows black and vast— The centre yawns, and in convulsion raves, And every burst seems wilder than the last…

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Floods in Scotland

The Currency Lad · Saturday 11 May 1833 · page 4

The following letter has been received by a gentleman in Edinburgh from a friend in Inverness:-- My dear Sir,--You may congratulate yourself you…

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Hail Storm Near Allahabad. To the Editor of the India Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 26 September 1833 · page 3

Sir,—If no other correspondent should have communicated, to you an account of the hail-storm which took place this afternoon, the folllowing description of the only…

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Flood at Illawarra. (Extract from a Letter, dated Illawarra, Dec. 6.)

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 12 December 1833 · page 2

"I can give you a very distressing account of a case that has happened here, I think the calamity was partial. On Tuesday night last, the family of Mr. Spearing retired to bed at half-past twelve,…

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