The High-Tides Hoax
Anon
Genre: | Reportage, Drollery |
Subjects: | Astronomy, Pollution, Sanitation, Public Health |
Reports on astronomers' 'abortive attempt [...] to create a panic, by predicting a run upon the Banks of the Thames'. Adds that the Thames kept its 'dead and deadly level'. | |
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