'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎58] (85/268)

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3 It will be understood that this refers merely to the recent geolo-
gical question of a rising or lowering of the coast, and not to distant
geological, still less to political, questions. j
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Extract from an article in the “Bombay Saturday Review” of the
18th of August 1866, on the Geological Action on the South Coast of
Kattiawar and in the Runn.
On the south coast of Ivattiawar and in the Runn of Cutch we have
some remarkable illustrations of the encroachment of land on sea, and
sea on land, and of the alternate rising and sinking of land—simple
operations, but to which the Geographical evolution of the five conti
nents of the globe is due. For a long time past observers have sup
posed that the Gulf of Cambay has been gradually filling up. Several
large continental rivers—the Taptee, Nerbudda, Mhye, and Sabur-
muttee—discharge the drainage of the Sautpoora, Yindhya, and Aravulli
mountains into it; and, as a large portion of Guzerat has been depo
sited by them, it is not improbable that in time they may fill up the
Gulf of Cambay. The gulf is full of shifting sandbanks, which make
its navigation extremely difficult. But, notwithstanding all these indi
cations of its being silted up, there are some who insist that the gulf is
yearly increasing in extent, and steadily encroaching on the southern
coast of Kattiawar. Whether the gulf is silting up or increasing in size
cannot, ot course, be determined except by observations, such as map
ping soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. made at a fixed season yearly for a series of years. But
there can be no doubt of the encroachments of the sea on the southern
coast oi Kattiawar, and it is not at all improbable that, simultaneously
with the silting up ol the Gull of Cambay in continuation of Guzerat }
all the south-east coast oi Kattiawar is being swept into the ocean by
the scour of the great rivers seeking their level in it. The creeks of