Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t4.9

v2.c27.s7.t4.9

There is an abundance of wells, from sixty to eighty feet in depth. Of one recently excavated, I obtained the following details of the strata, which may be gratifying to the geologist. The first twenty feet are composed entirely of that kind of earth called *dhamani*, chiefly decomposed sandstone with a mixture of black earth, in which occurs a stratum of bluish clay mixed with particles of quartz : this earth is called *morar* in Marwar, and *morand* in Jaipur. It was then necessary to cut through a rock of red granite ¹ for thirty feet ; then several feet of an almost milk-white steatite, succeeded by stalactitic concretions of sandstone and quartz.