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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-21

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780266578963

Excerpt from Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, 1880, Vol. 5: Cutch, Pálanpur, and Mahi Kántha Except what is found by ing in river-bed sands, the water of Outchstreams is unfit to drin and duringthe hot season istec salt even for cattle. In rocks at no great depth from the surface, water is readily found, and many walls from fifteen to forty-five feet deep yield excellent sap lies, and in one or two spots it is found almost close to the an Irrigation by the Persian wheel is unknown, but b the double-mouthed leather bag it is practised over a large area. The porous upper soil is against the storage of water in ponds and reservoirs. Ponds are not uncommon, but th are of no great size, and for one that holds water during the who 0 year, twenty run dry in six months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.