Administration Report of the Public Works Department for the year 1938-39

The southern half of the Baroda territory lies about ten miles inland from the Gulf of Cambay except in the Naysari Mahal between the Mindhola and Puma rivers where the Baroda territory forms the seaboard; and the State possesses no seaport of any value while owing t' the silting up of the estuaries of the great rivers no craft of any size can ascend to any point within the State boundaries. [...] The greater part of the State lies within the area of the coastal band of alluvium which has been formed by the Physiography of the encroachment on the shallow Gulf of Cambay of State. [...] The views from the top are very fine and interesting to the north—east and south and in really clear weather must be very beautiful including as they do the bold peaks of the Rajpipla and Satpura hills on the north the great plain of Khandesh to the east and the noble masses of Saler (5 263') and Mailer (4 760') and other fine peaks at the northern extremity of the great Sahyadri range to the s [...] Of much smaller sizeare the Dhadhar between the Mahi and the Narbada the Kim between the Narbada and the Tapti and to the south of the latter the Mindhola the Puma and the Ambika. [...] In the section called "Journey to the Mahajan River " after describing the interesting ruins of the old fort built by Sultan Mahomed Begrah King of Guzerat on the left bank of the river he proceeds to notice the occurrence in the river gravels a little distance above the junction of the Mahajam with the Watrak of agates of great beauty and value.