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The Rajputana Gazetteer Vol. 3 (1880) Includes Gazeteer Of Meywar, Partabgarh, Sirohi And Mount Abu, Ulwur, 1880
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1lake, 960 feet, and, beyond this again, to the Som, only 650 feet, above sea-level. The total distance is about 65 miles, giving a slope of about 82 feet per mile.
3Again, going due south to the cantonment of Khairwara, which is as nearly as possible 1,000 feet above sea-level, there is an average fall of 88 feet per mile in 53 miles. To the south-west through the Kotra cantonment (1,033 feet), to Ker Bungalow in Edar on a branch of the Sabarmati (694 feet), the slope is over 35 feet per mile. To the west and north-west the slope is even more abrupt, as Dinapore, a small village near Pindwara in Sirohi, is only 33 miles distant and 1,525 feet below Goguntla, showing a slope of 46 feet per mile, while to Bora in Godwar there is a fall of 1,635 feet in 28 miles, or more than 58 feet per mile. This great drop in the country forms the western border of Meywar, but in most places there is no attempt at a fixed boundary. The lower country belongs to Jodhpur or Sirohi as the case may be, and the higher country to Meywar; and between is a large belt of mountainous country claimed by both. The drainage of all the western portion of Meywar is southerly, and embraces the principal sources of the Sabarmati, which flows into the Gulf of Cambay.
5On the western slopes two rivers take their rise: the Gorai, which flows to the north-west past Erinpura and eventually into the Luni; and the Chhota Banas, which flows south-west into the Rann of Kachh.
7Geology.—The area of the central Arvalis has been only cursorily examined, and so little is known of it that nothing like a systematic description of the formation is possible. The general character of the range is its primitive formation—granite reposing in a variety of angles (the general dip is to the east) on massive, compact dark-blue slate, the latter rarely appearing much above the surface or base of the superincumbent granite. The internal valleys abound in variegated quartz, and a variety of schistose slate of every hue; and rocks of gneiss and syenite appear in the intervals. The range is composed of a series of ridges with deeply-excavated valleys; and here the lowest rocks, consisting largely of gneiss, are exposed, while on smaller hills the upper formations are almost exclusively found. The order of the strata beginning to the south of Khairwara has been described as (1) sandstone, (2) hornstone porphyry (noticed at Khairwara), (3) granite, (4) gneiss, (5) mica clay, chlorite slates (those about Jawar), and again granite at Oodeypore. Blue and red marls with rotten clay stones are very noticeable near Khairwara and about Jawar. Faults and dislocations are of frequent occurrence especially noticeable in the old mines, in many instances causing their abandonment.
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