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Floods & storms, 1848

3 stories in Sydney's papers

Polding's Deluge

The Sentinel · Thursday 10 February 1848 · page 2

THAT well known Romish emissary, John Bede Folding, falsely and arrogantly styling himself Archbishop of Sydney, returned to this colony on Sunday last, in the ship St. Vincent,…

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The Late Gale.—loss of Two Vessels and Nine Lives Within the Harbour

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 15 July 1848 · page 1

Early on Sunday morning the main-topmast of a schooner with a man clinging to it, was observed from the floating light ship, when Mr. Petit and three hands immediately pulled off to…

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Original Peotry. the Thunder Storm

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 September 1848 · page 3

Mysterious murmurings burden'd the breeze, And tempestuous waves and tumultuous trees, Gave an ominous gloom to the foam-crested shore,…

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