The World Before the Deluge
This work by Louis Figuier, contains twenty-five ideal landscapes of the ancient world, designed by Rion, and two hundred and eight figures of animals, plants, and other…
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Our Story Teller. Full Retribution. an Irish Tale of the Last Century. Chapter X. the Storm Bursts
When his daughter quitted his side Langton fell into utter despondency. An effort to conceal it would only have made it more apparent, because it would have requred a mental conflict…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →Our Story=Teller. Full Retribution. Irish Tale of the Last Century. Chapter Xi. the Storm Clears Off
When Frank O'Brien returned to Cork after this last interview with Langton, he strove to drive away the remembrance of his disappointment by an unremitting application to business…
Continued on Trove, page 84 →Experiments Before the Queen with Gale's Protected Gunpowder
On Friday afternoon the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highneases, the Princess Helena, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Prince Louis of Hesse, withessed experiments with Mr. Gale's protected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Gales. (From Mitchell's Register, January 20.)
MANY years have elapsed since it has been our lot to record such wholesale destruction of shipping property as has been occasioned by the late gales, accompanied, we regret to add, by most lamentable loss of life. To give an exact record of these casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Official List of Disasters by the Late Storm. (From the European Times, January 26.)
THE Board of Trade have on received the annexed list of ships lost during the late disastrous gales. The details are furnished by the Receiver of Wrecks:—The ship Guy Mannering. 1160 tons burthen, Captain Brown, commander,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gales, Inundations, and Great Snowstorm
Seldom has the commencement of a new year been more noted by a dismal record of wrecks on our coasts, and founderings in the deep seas, than that of the present year. A series of terrific gales, which…
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At about half-past three o'clock one Thursday morning, January 11th, a heavyfall of rain was followed by a viclent snowstorm. At the commencement the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Official List of Disasters by the Late Storm. (From the European Times, January 26.)
The Board of Trade have rocoived the annexed list of ships lost during the late disastrous gales. The details are furnished by the Receiver of "Wrecks:- The ship Guy Mannering, 1,160 tons burthen, Captain…
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On the evening of Feb. 4 a violent, thunderstorm passed over Birmingham. During the day the Wind had been blowing a heavy gale, and there were slight soudding showers. About 6 o'clock in the ovening the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Storms in the Atlantic. (From the Liverpool Albion, February 12.)
IT is admitted on all hands and the admission is un happily supported by a long series of melancholy marine disasters, that the storms of wind which swept the Atlantic and raged with almost unparalleled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Recent English Gales and Their Effects. (From the Nau[?]cal Magazine for February.)
MISFORTUNES from the inclemency and seventy of the weather have come thick and fast upon us. The new year of grace, 1866, will be celebrated in history by the effects of maritime disasters almost as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coming Storm in Europe. (From the Spectator, March 24th.)
THE dull, dumb, instinctive wisdom of the British people, the wisdom which, like the swallow's flight southward instead of northward, does not depend on intellect, was never more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gale at Newcastle. [From Our Correspondent.]
WRECK OF THE SCHOONER ORIENT, JOHN NAPLES, MASTER.— On Saturday, it blew a gale of wind from S.W., which soon caused the sea to get up. In the afternoon several vessels approached the port. Some were towed in; others brought up to an anchor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Barometer in the Late Gales. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—It seems strange that all the barometers sold and used in the colony should be marked fer English weather. For instance, during the last six or eight days the index has shown set fair and very dry, and we all know how very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →England and the Coming Storm in Europe
The dull, dumb, instinctive wisdom of the British people, the wisdom which, like the swallow's flight southward instead of northward, does not depend on intellect, was never…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fresh in the Hunter, and Flood at Dagworth. (From Thursday's Maitland Mercury.)
THE rain which set in during the early part of last weak continued at intervals until Saturday morning, from which time until midnight of Sunday, the weather was clear and fine, with every prospect of continuing so. At an early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale at Lyttelton
A gale unparalleed for its duration and destructive effects in Lyttelton harbour, commenced on Friday morning from the S.W. The yacht Flying Mist foundered at her moorings, and the barge Glasgow, ladon with coal, went as shore near…
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The weather, which has been very unsettled for some days, became mere decided in its character on Wednesday night, when a thunderstorm passed over Sydney, succeeeded by violent squals, very heavy rain, and flnally,…
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The loss of life and wreeks duing the last two days are melancholy disasters whfoh sprean terror and griof throughout the length and bradth of Australls, and send desolation and was to may a flreside, where near relations and [?]mpathising…
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