108 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OP KUTCH. [PAET II. 



Scattered thickly over the ground near the bank of a river crossed by 

 the road from Gudra to Junan, a patch of large broken univalve shells, 

 Pofamides palustris, was observed ; whence they came could not be dis- 

 covered, but their fragments were found in the neighbouring stream. They 

 have been frequently found (often near rivers) collected in the same 

 way all over the northern side of Kutch, and always in a fragmentary 

 state as if brought together by human or animal agency. They have 

 a very recent appearance, but were never found alive in the rivers. 

 Their general distribution in small patches is to say the least peculiar. 



The alluvium of Kurreer is of the ordinary brown loamy or sandy 

 character, passing so indefinitely into or under the Runn that it is 

 difficult to say where any divisional line exists between one and the other. 



Runn Islets. 



In that portion of the Runn which separates Kurreer and Bela from 

 the Wagur tract is a group of rocky islets ; of these Gangta and Kakeen- 

 dia Bets are the most lofty, the rest being low ' beyts' or •■ beers.-"* 



Both of these hills rise to heights of 90 feet (aneroid) above the 



, ^ , ,. Runn, and both exhibit anticlinal curvature of the 

 Gangta and Kakeendia •" 



Bets. rocks, which, as the axis of the latter place shows 



a tendency to curve, may be parts of one contortion, both islands lying in 

 the general direction which it takes. These islets would seem to mark a 

 position at which oblique minor antielinals occur in the wider curve 

 formed by the approaching inclinations of the northern range and the 

 Wagur rocks opposite to them. 



Kakeendia Bet. 

 In Kakeendia Bet, which is separated from Kurreer by a narrow 

 belt of soft wet Runn incrusted with salt sometimes two inches thick, rocks 



* The meaning of these words is somewhat obscure : ' beer" means a grassy place, and 

 'bet,' frequently applied to a cone or peak, is said in Captain Burton's 'Sinde, or the 

 Unhappy Valley !' to mean a heap, or ground of that shape. As such, it is applicable to the 

 islets above mentioned ; but in other parts of the Runn, flat spots, sometimes called ' dhooi,' 

 are also given the name of ' bet.' 



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