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Sir Charles Lyell, in his " Principles of Geology/' has an interesting' 

 section descriptive of the great earthquake, and its results, referring to 

 the above accounts. 



AUusions to the Geology of Kutch occur in Dr. Carter's ' Summary 

 of the Geology of India' in " Geological Papers on Western India/' 

 edited by that gentleman : a volume in which also is reprinted Colonel 

 Grant's paper, and a short notice of some fossils (collected by Captain 

 W. Smee) by Colonel Sykes, f. e. s., Colonel Grant's map, and plates of 

 fossils to accompany both papers, being given in an atlas to the work. 



Remarks on the Allah Bund and the drainage of the eastern part of 

 Sind, form a paper by Captain Baker in the Transactions of the Bombay 

 Geographical Society ; and two other papers by Lieutenant Dodd, subse- 

 quently read at the same Society, are chiefly descriptive of the country. 



Mr. Blanford's paper has been akeady mentioned ; and the next re- 

 connoissance connected with Geology appears to have been Lieutenant 

 Merewether's journey through the western side of the province in search 

 of large stone for the Kurrachee Breakwater. 



An article in the ' Bombay Saturday Review' on the recent eleva- 

 tion of the Runn and Kattiwar was followed by communications to the 

 Government of Bombay from the Superintendents of the Geological and 

 Great Trigonometrical Surveys, Mr. William Sowerby, c. e., e. g. s.. 

 Captains Haig, e. e., g. t. s.. La Touche,* LeGeyt Hebbert,* Watson, 

 Lieutenant Lloyd, Colonel Keatinge, V. c, and Colonel Anderson.f 



While it is beyond the intention of the present report to enter 

 into detailed criticism of these various publications, some notice is due 

 to the earliest and most important records connected with the geology 

 of the province. 



* These two officers fell in a recent attack upon the Wagirs of Kattiwar. 

 t Badaoni, the historian, says—' In 1585, the Ran of Kachh (Kutch) was distant 

 from the ocean, iu some places 10, in others 30, kos.' 



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