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Black Thursday

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February 6th, 1851; so called in the colony of Victoria, from a terrible bush-fire which then occurred.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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