'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎69] (96/268)

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same. 4. From H. E. Jacomb, Esq., C.S., Under-Secretary to
Government, General Department, forwarding, for the information of
the Society, the following papers in connection with the question raised
in an article in the “ Bombay Saturday Review” entitled “ Geological
Action on the South Coast of Kattyawar and in the Runn”:—
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the General Department, dated Ath May 1867.
Read the following papers :—
Letter from Lieutenant H. Morland, e.r.a.s., r.r.g.s., Honorary Secretary, Bom
bay Geographical Society, to J. King, Esq. C.S., Acting Under-Secretary to
Government, No. 2. dated 5th January 1867.
In reply to your letter No. 1693, General Department, dated the 27 th August
1866, I am directed by this Society to state, for the information of Government,
that in their opinion the question raised by the u JBoimbciy Saturday Review in
an article in its issue of August 18th, entitled “ Geological Action on the South
Coast of Kattyawar and in the Runn,” is of great importance, and can only be
set at rest by observations extending over several years.
2. There should be soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. taken in the Gulf of Cambay at the same
seasons every year and carefully mapped, and observations made, as proposed by
the Bombay Saturday Review, by (C Mehtas” at different stations on the South
Coast of Kattyawar and along the Runn. As to the encroachments of the sea on
the Coast and in the Runn, inquiries should also be made as to whether any thing
exists in the traditions and literature of Kattyawar throwing light on the oscil
lations of the land in Kattyawar. Rao Sahib Mahipatram Roopram, Deputy
Educational Inspector, and Mr. Jettyshunker, Schoolmaster at Bhooj, might be
referred to for the necessary information under this head.
3 . But the only way to come to a true conclusion will be to make observations
on the Coast of Kattyawar and soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. in the Gulf of Cambay extending
over at least ten years, and as regards the soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. in the Gulf repeated again
and again at intervals of twenty or thirty years. Ten years’ observations will be
quite sufficient, perhaps, to determine whether the sea is encroaching on the
South Coast of Kattyawar and in the Runn. It may be that the Runn is sub
ject to repeated oscillations, the effect of which, whether in depressing or raising
it, will be as difficult and tedious to determine as the question of the filling up
of the Gulf of Cambay.
4. The Society are also of opinion that the range of observations should be
extended to Kutch and Sind on the North, and to the Northern and Southern