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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1839

8 stories in Sydney's papers

An Attempt to Develops the Law of Storms

The Sydney Herald · Friday 8 March 1839 · page 4

This work opens to us a new subject. It is the commencement of an investigation, which may be in a high degree useful to navigation, since its object is to show not only that storms are…

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Dreadful Storm

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 11 March 1839 · page 4

The weather during the early part, of this week was unusually warm; but on Thursday we experienced a serious and most alarming change the barometer in…

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Awful Gale at Liverpool—enormous Destruction of Property, and Loss of Life

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 13 May 1839 · page 2

It is our painful duty it record the lamentable effects of a hurricane, which, notwithstanding the security afforded, in ordinary circumstances, by our admirable docks and basins, and the improved…

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English Extracts. Desertion of the Liverpool Light Ship in the Gale

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1839 · page 4

A very unpleasant s[?]ate of feeling prevails at Liverpool, relative to the alleged desertion of their post by the persons in charge of the light-ship at the entrance of…

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Domestic Intelligence. Storms

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 14 August 1839 · page 2

A very important work entitled "An attempt to develope the law of storms by means of facts, arranged according to place and time; and heuce to point out a cause for the variable winds, with…

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Storm at Sea

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1839 · page 4

Before I went on board, I had said I should like to witness a storm as fierce as we could escape from without fatal damage. Some passenger repeated this wish of mine…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Friday Morning, September 13, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. SHAKEPEARE. The late Gale and Rains

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1839 · page 2

The late gale and showers have visited the South as far as Marulan; but at Goulburn and beyond they have only had refreshing showers. The ponds consequently remain half full, and the…

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Law of Storms

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1839 · page 3

NOTICE.--The Lieutenant Governor of an Dieman's Land has been honoured by the receipt of a despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a…

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