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damage that has been caused on shore & the utter ruin
which has overtaken the greater part of the shipping in the
river. During the whole of Tuesday night, the weather was
marked by a succession of squalls & heavy rain from
the NNE & it maintained the same character till about 1/2
past 10 on Wednesday morng [morning] rapidly increasing in violence
The wind then veered to East & began to blow more steadily
& with increased fury. The weaker trees were uprooted, or
broken short ~~off~~ but for the first hour or so no greater damage
was done. Between 11 & 12 o'clock a noise like that of distant
thunder, which probably may have been heard from as far as
2 miles gave warning as if it gradually increased that
something worse was coming. In about 2 minutes from this
time the true Cyclone was upon the town. Wherever
ther were trees, they were either uprooted & fell carrying
with them in many cases, walls, railings, & buildings , or
their branches were snapped off like reeds & hurled away
with the wind, carriages & [palkees?] were upset & strewed
the roads mingled with the debris of roofs verandahs &
gates & fallen trees. Corugated iron roofings were torn
doubled up & thrown away like sheets of paper. By 2 o'clock
the Eastern & Southern suburbs of the city & those parts

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