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: