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State Lib Qld 1 241810 High levels of the Mary River at Gympie, 1870

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State Lib Qld 1 241810 High levels of the Mary River at Gympie, 1870

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High levels of the Mary River at Gympie, 1870.
Possibly taken by the Brisbane photographer, Mathewson. 'Rain incessant for twenty hours; river rose over 30 feet, and at one place it rose 1 foot in five minutes. One-mile township flooded; residents forced to move; 7.5 inches of rain fell in the last 24 hours 1870'. (Information taken from, Extract from,'Results of Rainfall Observations made in Queensland, H.A. Hunt, Commonwealth Meteorologist, 1914.).

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1870 - 1879
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Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
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