'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎59] (86/268)

BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Hx
Bhownuggur, Dhollera, and Mhowa are yearly enlarging, and large
quantities of soil are detached from their banks by the high tides of
June and November. During the high tides of last June a considerable
portion of the Mussulman burying-ground at Gogo was washed away
by the sea, which at the same time found its way under the stone
embankment of the pier, and formed a pool of salt water, still standing,
between the town and its sea wall. The earth embankment that once
stood between the sea wall of Gogo and the sea has been gradually
entirely removed by the sea, which now everywhere licks the very walls
of the town. This wall is now being undermined, and in a few years
the south-east portion of Gogo will exist no more. The masonry abut
ment which protects a small Mussulman shrine in the wall close to the
travellers bungalow has already been completely broken up by the sea,
and its fragments will be washed away into the ocean by the high tides
of next November. Kattiawar may indeed become an island at last.
At present in the monsoon it is almost an island, the Dhollera creek
being connected by a chain of swamps with the Null; and were the
Null once connected with the Runn, by any alteration in the level of
the latter, such as indeed seems, as we shall presently see, to be going
on at this time, Kattiawar would become an island. There can be little
doubt that it was an island once. The whole character of the tract
called the Bhal, extending from Gogo to Purnalla and Yayjee, some 90
rmles north, bears evident signs of having been at some remote period
covered with salt water. After the Bhal commences the Null Kanta,
extending as far north as Shahpoor. This tract presents the same
general geological and botanical features as the Bhal, and actually be
comes submerged every monsoon. From Shahpoor to the Runn is only
bom 18 to 22 miles, and there can be little doubt that at one time the
iT n' i° l tlie Runn avl<! tlie GuIf of Cambay were united through the
u anta and Bhal. Were, indeed, any subsidence to take place in
te Runn, the sea water which would overflow it would seek its level
v/ 011 ! 01 ^ anta anc * Blial, and place a narrow strait between
urdwan and Ahmedabad, and with the outfall of the Saburmuttee,
* w e ; JUd(k ’ and Taptee ’ Separate Kattiawar ^om the mainland,
tt regard to the Runn itself, there is proof positive that it was
diaTw 7 ’ a Wlthin the Wst0ric P eriod > entire ly under the sea, and
'^at Wowanma, Teekur, and Kherwera were considerable local ports.