26 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [pART I. 



upon the ' crop' declaring themselves wherever the situation is sufficiently 

 hi^h to have enabled the denuding agencies to remove their debris. 



The nummulitic beds in the neighbourhood of Lukput form 

 singularly barren ground j being in fact an undulating waste overspread 

 by a white gravel composed of nummulites resulting from extensive 

 decomposition of the calcareous rocks so thickly crowded with these 

 fossilsj that they have even forced themselves upon the attention of the 

 nativeSj and obtained the name of Luhpui ha jmisa (money). 



Of the relations between the superficial condition of the Runn 



and the rocks which it conceals little can be said. 

 Kimn. 



Three different formations at least pass beneath 



it ; and the basal portion of the Jurassic, as well as the probable junc- 

 tion between these and the metamorphic rocks, is there lost to view. 

 In fact there does not seem to be much more than a very general con- 

 nection between the geological structure and this flat form of ground. 

 Any varieties of rocks may form coasts continuing thence beneath the 

 sea • and it may be presumed that nearly all sea bottoms if elevated 

 would form plains of some kind. 



The strong tradition of the natives agrees with the conclusions of 



. , J ]V[acMurdo, Burnes, Grant, Blanford and others. 

 The Eunn an mland 



sea. that the Runn was once submerged. The former 



officer records the finding of an ancient boat, of a larger size than any now 

 used in the Gulf of Kutch, beneath the mud of the Runn at a depth of ] 5 

 feet in the bank of a creek near the village of Wowannia on its Kattiwar 

 coast • " there was no iron in the vessel, she was bound with cordage of 

 coir." He also says that there was a tradition in the country that Khor, a 

 villao'e further east on the same shore, was a seaport town about the year 

 1765 and that perforated stones used as anchors by the natives have 

 been found upon the shores of the Runn. Prom the 16th paragraph of 

 Lieutenant Dodd's paper (referred to in appendix) it would appear that 

 this date has reference to a period during which the Gulf of Kutch 

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