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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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1The following are the various kinds of stones quarried for building purposes in Moywar:—Of volcanic rocks, granular or ordinary dolerite, and also basalt, are found in abundance near Oodeypore. Slabs to a length of 20 feet are obtained from a quarry at Matal, and up to 14 feet from Bandar Magra; but the stone is heavy and requires substantial support. Most of the buildings at the capital are, however, constructed of it. Trappean rocks in the shape of porphyry are met with in some old quarries near Devimátá, a few miles from Oodeypore. The dam of the small tank known as the Purohitji-ka-Taláo, near the Chirwa pass on the road to Eklingji, is constructed of this stone, and affords a proof of its durability. There is a bed of granite some six miles in length by a mile in breadth on the Nímach road 16 miles from Oodeypore; but the quarries have been abandoned, as the stone, which is compact and of a dirty-white, is difficult and expensive to work. Amongst aqueous rocks, there is the conglomerate sandstone now being used to fill in the embankment at the Debur lake. It is of two colors, a pink and a soft-green, the former the more easily broken of the two. The quartz pebbles imbedded in it vary in size from a pea to an egg; and the matrix in which they lie is as hard as the pebbles themselves, and requires regular blasting. Sandstone is abundant in Meywar, especially in the hills about Debur and at Debari, though at the latter place too soft to be of much use. Millstone grit of a fleshy-pink color is found at the villages of Mahuwara and Dhinkli, and its manufacture affords employment to many families there. Kankar, or nodular limestone, is not found in the hilly Tracts, but abounds in the plains of Meywar.
3Compact limestone of a bluish-grey is found about two miles from Oodeypore, and is capable of taking a good polish. Crystalline limestone, fine-grained and of a white color, is quarried in abundance at Rajnagar; this is the marble used in the construction of the dam of the Raj Samand lake at that place, and the lime burnt from it takes a high polish, and is extensively used at the capital. Black marble, equally good, is found at Chitor. Stalactites and stalagmites, generally of a pale-yellow, abound in the hilly Tracts and make good mortar.
5Quartz abounds all over the State. There is a deep bed of it below the shale in the ridge on which the palace at the capital stands. The Parsad and Oodey Ságar hills are also quartzite.
7Clay slate is found in large quantities, but only worked at Dhinkli near Oodeypore. It is black, and varies from a quarter of an inch to an inch in thickness. Serpentine rock of a dirty-green is quarried between Rakabdev and Khairwára. It is worked up into cistigies and vessels of domestic use for sale to pilgrims, and
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