PARWAN VALLEY (Cave in the upper)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

LORD (1838: 530) reported an approximately 3 km long subterranean water course, complete with sink (insurgence) and resurgence (a penetrable river cave?) from the crystalline and fossiliferous limestones (note 1) in the Salang river valley: The upper part of the valley of Parwán [note 2] is characterised by numerous and large natural cavities [note 3], in one of which the water of the valley is engulphed [sic!] and does not re-appear for a distance of two miles. SITUATION: From the break in the hills which gives passage to the Ghorband from the south-west and the Panjshir from the north-east there strikes off one well-known route across the backbone of the Hindu Kush, which is marked near the southern foot of the mountains by the ancient town of Parwan … Consequently, the pass which bears north from that point is often called Parwan. The head of the pass was known as Sar Alang [now: Salang], so that it figures in geographical records under this name also [note 4], whilst the local nam acquired for it in the course of surveying in 1883 was Bajgah [note 5] (HOLDICH 1910: 413-414).LORD (1838: 530) reported an approximately 3 km long subterranean water course, complete with sink (insurgence) and resurgence (a penetrable river cave?) from the crystalline and fossiliferous limestones (note 1) in the Salang river valley: The upper part of the valley of Parwán [note 2] is characterised by numerous and large natural cavities [note 3], in one of which the water of the valley is engulphed [sic!] and does not re-appear for a distance of two miles. SITUATION: From the break in the hills which gives passage to the Ghorband from the south-west and the Panjshir from the north-east there strikes off one well-known route across the backbone of the Hindu Kush, which is marked near the southern foot of the mountains by the ancient town of Parwan … Consequently, the pass which bears north from that point is often called Parwan. The head of the pass was known as Sar Alang [now: Salang], so that it figures in geographical records under this name also [note 4], whilst the local namLORD (1838: 530) reported an approximately 3 km long subterranean water course, complete with sink (insurgence) and resurgence (a penetrable river cave?) from the crystalline and fossiliferous limestones (note 1) in the Salang river valley: The upper part of the valley of Parwán [note 2] is characterised by numerous and large natural cavities [note 3], in one of which the water of the valley is engulphed [sic!] and does not re-appear for a distance of two miles. SITUATION: From the break in the hills which gives passage to the Ghorband from the south-west and the Panjshir from the north-east there strikes off one well-known route across the backbone of the Hindu Kush, which is marked near the southern foot of the mountains by the ancient town of Parwan … Consequently, the pass which bears north from that point is often called Parwan. The head of the pass was known as Sar Alang [now: Salang], so that it figures in geographical records under this name also [note 4], whilst the local nam acquired for it in the course of surveying in 1883 was Bajgah [note 5] (HOLDICH 1910: 413-414).