hich blowing over the heated plains of the interior
gathers up its excessive temperature and carries it to the
southern colonies. They seldom last more than two or three
days in Sydney, and the great heat by which they are remembered
never lasts more than a few hours of one day, and is always a
sign of the end, which is an inrush of southerly wind, the
circulation forming the front of the new incoming anticyclone."

1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' Vol. II. c. iii.
p. 66:

"This was the only occasion upon which we felt the hot winds
in the interior."

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' Vol. II.
c. vi. p. 243:

"These squalls generally succeed the hot winds that prevail
at this season in South Australia, coming from the interior."

Footnote--"During the hot winds we observed the thermometer,
in the direct rays of the sun, to be 135 degrees."

1846. Ibid. c. xii. p. 403:

"A hot wind set in; . . . at one time the thermometer at the
public offices [Adelaide] was 158 degrees."

1849. C. Sturt, `Expedition into Central Australia,' vol.
ii. p. 90:

"I sought shelter behind a large gum tree, but the blasts of
heat were so terrific that I wondered the very grass did not
take fire. . . . Everything, both animate and inanimate, gave
way before it: the horses stood with their backs to the wind,
and their noses to the ground, without the muscular strength to
raise their heads; the birds were mute, and the leaves of the
trees, under which we were sitting, fell like a snow shower
around us. At noon I took a thermometer, graduated to 127
degrees, out of my box, and observed that the mercury was up to
125 degrees. Thinking that it had been unduly influenced, I
put it in the fork of a tree close to me, sheltered alike from
the wind and the sun. In this position I went to examine it
about an hour afterwards, when I found that the mercury had
risen to the top of the instrument, and that its further
expansion had burst the bulb. . . . We had reached our
destination, however, before the worst of the hot wind set in."

1850. J. B. Clutterbuck, `Port Phillip in 1849,' p. 25:

"The immediate cause of the hot winds has given rise to much
speculation. . . . The favourite theory is that they are
generated in the sandy plains of the interior, which becoming
powerfully heated, pour their glowing breath upon the fertile
regions of the south."

1871. Dingo, `Australian Rhymes,' p. 7:

"A hot wind