DETAILED ACCOUNT OF SOME RECENT EXPERIMENTS. 7! 



The country was visited by the Director of the Geological 

 Report bv Mr Survey, Mr. Griesbach, at the commencement 



Gnesbach. f (.jjg year, and the following remarks are 



extracted from his notes. 



Notes on the chances of finding Artesian water in Gujarat. 



"(1) Gujarat with the adjoining districts, Cutch, Kathiawar, Mahi 

 Kantha and the Panch Mahals may, for the purposes of the water 

 inquiry, be roughly divided into three well-defined areas, which 

 differ stucturally from one another. There are (a) the hilly tracts 

 which include the Mahi Kantha and Panch Mahals ; (b) the Cutch and 

 Kathiawar States, which fringe Gujarat along the south-west ; and (c) 

 the flat country between the hill tracts which is formed by the 

 drainage running into the Gulfs of Cutch and of Cambay. 



(2) The hilly tracts of the Mahi Kantha and Panch Mahals 

 consist chiefly of older rocks, both schistose and crystalline, both much 

 disturbed. Several of the valleys within this area are filled with recent 

 deposits, but there is no evidence to show that a search for artesian 

 water will meet with any success within these deposits. 



(3) The areas of Cutch and Kathiawar which form the south- 

 western fringe of Gujlrat are chiefly built up of younger sedimentary 

 strata (both cretaceous and tertiary beds) which are associated with the 

 so-called Deccan trap, and I think it is extremely unlikely that within 

 this area artesian conditions will be met with, although even so much 

 cannot be absolutely insisted upon, but the general geological structure 

 is certainly not promising, and I would not advocate the outlay of money 

 on a systematic search for such a water-supply, especially as water 

 may in most instances be found within reasonable depths by digging 

 ordinary wells. 



(4) It appears to me that the only part of the northern division of 

 the Bombay Presidency, within which a search for artesian water 



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