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Floods & storms, 1843

5 stories in Sydney's papers

The Late Floods

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 1 March 1843 · page 850

During the whole of the last week the rain has been almost unceasing, and from various parts of the country we learn that the overflowing of the creeks has done much mischief. The River…

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Dreadful Storm at Madeira. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1843 · page 2

FUNCHAL, the capital of Madeira, and the whole of the island, has been visited with one of the most dreadful storms that has occurred since the flood in the year 1803, and upwards…

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The Late Gales

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 6 June 1843 · page 3

We are glad to find that our advices received to-day are much more limited in the details of disasters to our shipping than those reported in this paper yesterday or on Saturday; still, however, our readers…

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Connection of Comets with the Deluge

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 23 August 1843 · page 6

As the attention of the public at the present moment is particularly directed towards the comet that has so unexpectedly made its appearance, I think it may be interesting to examine into a calculation I…

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Extensive Flood at the M'leay River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 September 1843 · page 4

BY the Letitia, which arrived on Saturday last from the M'Leay River, and the Mary Ann and Lark which succeeded her from the same place, we have received information of…

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