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CAMBAY, GULF OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 82 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMBAY, GULF OF , an inlet in the See also:coast of See also:India, in the See also:Gujarat See also:division of Bombay. It is about 8o m. in length, but is shallow and abounds in shoals and sandbanks. It is supposed that the See also:depth of See also:water in this gulf has been decreasing for more than two centuries past. The tides, which are very high, run into it with amazing velocity, but at See also:low water the bottom is See also:left nearly dry for some distance below the See also:latitude of the See also:town of Cambay. It is, however, an important inlet, being the channel by which the valuable produce of central Gujarat and the See also:British districts of See also:Ahmedabad and See also:Broach is exported; but the railway from Bombay to See also:Baroda and Ahmedabad, near Cambay, has for some See also:time past been attracting the See also:trade to itself.

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