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and some fine calcareous and argillaceous meeta rock quarried at Gooniasir 

 near Assambia is largely employed for carved work at Mandavee. 



The sub-recent concrete or calcareous tufa formation occurring 



extensively throughout the district in many places 

 Sub-receut concrete. 



contains even beds of coarse soft calcareous sandstone 



which are often worked only by pick and bar^ and produce a fine white 



stone not unlike that from Pore-Bunder (Kattiwar) at a little distance. 



and which from their durability, though always rather soft, seem to harden 



nearly as much as they disintegrate under the action of the atmosphere. 



This stone is largely quarried on the road from Mandavee to Bhooj, at 



the ghat descending to the Bhooj plain along the Charwar and Katrol 



range, and in various other places, either for building or for burning 



into lime. 



Along the coast at two or three places westward of Mandavee a 

 littoral concrete worked between tides is used for 



Littoral concrete. 



the construction of wells, &c., and was the material 

 proposed to be used for a pier or jetty at Mandavee. It is formed of 

 the shore-sand consolidated and cemented by carbonate of lime, and is 

 said to be about two feet in thickness. 



The following list of building stones used at Bhooj has been 

 supplied by the Dewan to His Highness the Rao of Kutch — 



No. NiME OF STONE. LoCALITT. StONE. 



'-'^''ed Cl"I?hSre™r"t \ * ™'^= '«"«> "^ Bhooj Lr, jura-.andstone. 



( Ditto 



r Fine praj grit. 



f NabhoeorNambje— south-west of Bhooj about* Ditto 



•"l 20 miles—... ... ... ... \Y' ^' 



3— Meereean ... Baoka, 8 miles W. N. 'W. of Bhooj ... 



4:~Ditto ... Maadavee Road Bridge, 6 miles from Bhooj Ditto. 



r- Tw-irx f Kareiur, Katrol range S. of Madapoor, 4 miles ) jij+fn 



^"^^•^'^ •"-( from Bhooj .. ... ... f ^'"*'- 



6 — ... Ejiora, 42 miles north of Bhooj ... ... Lower jura— limestone, 



» f Hubba or Hubbje Hills between Kota and} Lower jura— dark gray 



'"i Lodaee ... ... ... ...> stoue, 



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