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tremely high temperature. This hot wind always blew from the inte- 
rior, in New South Wales and Tasmania, its direction being from the 
northwest and from the north in Port Phillip and South Australia. 
The breath of this wind was like the blast from a fiery furnace, in- 
creasing the mean temperature a summer’s day, on the westerly 
the hot wind the thermometer rose to 100° or even 115° in the shade, 
with the southerly squall there was sometimes a sudden fall of full 40° 
in the course of half or even quarter of an hour. ‘This wind swept up 
from the interior clouds of dust and sand, sometimes intermixed with 
entirely corroborated this assumption. The discoveries of Capt. Sturt, 
of the winds. ‘The situation of Capt. Sturt’s desert was such that there 
centre of the largest of these deserts, which probably extended from 
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