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BOMBAY GEOGUAPHICAL SOCIETY.
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No. 1692, dated ciet y> the aecompanying copy of a Resolution of
27th August 1866. Go^ eminent, calling the attention of the local
officers in Kattywar, and the countries bordering
ontheRunnof Cutch and the Gulf of Cambay, to an article which
.appeared in the Bombay Saturday Review, published on the 18th
instant, on the subject of geological action on the south coast of
Kattiawar and in the Runn, and to request that the Society will favour
Government with a note of the principal facts to which the attention of
observers should be directed, and of the manner in which observations
should be taken.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
J. King,
Acting under Secretary to Government.
No. 1692 of 1866.
General Department.
Bombay Castle, 27th August 1866.
Resolution of Government.
The attention of the Commissioner in Sind, the Political Agents in
Cutch, Pahlunpoor, and Kattiawar, of the Collectors of Ahmedabad
and Kama, and of the Public Works Officers in all the districts named,
should be drawn to the accompanying extract from an article in the
Bombay Saturday Review, of August 18th, 1866, on the geological
action on the south coast of Kattiawar and in the Runn, with a request
that they will, at their convenience, make inquiry from all quarters,
where useful and reliable information is likely to be obtained, as to the
tact, and take measures for a careful observation of facts bearing on
the elevation or depression of land on the coasts of Cutch and Kattia-
war tor the future, and from time to time inform Government of the
result.
3. Any reports of interest on these subjects may be sent to the
Geographical Society, which may be asked to favour Government with
note of the principal facts to which the attention of observers should
he directed, and ol the manner in which observations should be taken.
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