'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎63] (90/268)

BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
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not only would Back Bay and the whole foreshore of Bombay Harbour
be reclaimed without the cost of a farthing to the Back Bay, Elphin-
stone, Frere, Mazagon, and United Colaba Reclamation Companies, but
for miles out into the Indian ocean the whole western coast of India
would be in this sense “ reclaimed,” by the receding of the ocean, and
Bombay left high and dry, “acity set on a hill” some 500 feet above
the sea level; leaving its landlords, who in their ignorant selfishness
fancy they owe nothing to commerce, to lament “ How hath the golden
city ceased!” Very slight oscillations in the Himalayas and Hindoo
Kosh may, therefore, make all the difference in the Runn between its
remaining the Runn, or again becoming an inlet of the ocean, and to
Kattiawar between its continuing a promontory of India, or ao-ain be
coming an island.
No. 1 or I867.
To J. King, Esq., C.S.,
Acting Under Secretary to Government, General Department, Bombay.
Bombay Geographical Society's Rooms,
Town Hall, 1th January 1867.
Ih S ' R ’~ I * ^ t0 - V0,lr letter N °- 1693, General Department, dated
. n 0 ^ ust 18G6j 1 am dlrected b J this Society to state for the
in orma ion o Government that in their opinion the question raised by
the Lornbay Saturday Review, in an article in its issue of August 18th
Sf* r 0 ™ 108 ”' AMi »" “ of K«ttiawar L
rations mp0rtance ’ and can 0(1 be set at rest by obser-
ions extending over several years.
^me ^ S0Undin S s tf,ken in ‘be Gulf of Cambay at the
as nrono / V. 0 '" 11 ’ an< care b 1 Hy mapped ; and observations made,
Nations on fl 7 l Review > b >' '^htas at different
the encm i, ’ L S ° Uth C ° aSt ° f Kattlaw ar and along the Runn. As to
should ah C , m8ntS ° f the sea 011 the coast and bi the Runn, inquiries
literature ° f HS ^ whether an 3 ,th ing exists in the traditions and
Kattiawu- ° f u Ulr0Wing light 011 thG oscillations of the land in
Rao Saheb Mahipatram Rupram, Deputy Educational