KALABAGH, in lat. 32° 57' N., and long. 35' E., in the Panjab. .The mean height of the town, 790 feet above the sea ; Kalabagh peak, above 2357 feet. The Indus is here compressed by mountains into a deep channel 350 yards broad. The mountains on each side have an abrupt descent into the river, and a road is cut along their base for upwards of two miles. The first part of this pass is actually overhung by the town of Kalabagh, which is built in a singiflar manner upon the face of the hill, every street rising above its neighbour. The Hon. Mount stuart Elphinstone found the road cut out of solid salt, at the foot of cliffs of that mineral, in some places more than 100 feet high above the river. The town is picturesquelysituated at the foot of the Salt Range, on the right bank of the Indus, at the point where the river debouches from the hills, 105 miles below Attock. The houses nestle
against the side of a precipitous hill of solid rock salt, piled one upon another in successive tiers, the roof of each tier forming the street which passes in front of the row immediately above. Overhead, a cliff, also of pure rock-salt, towers above the town. An Awan family, who reside in Kalabagh, have a certain supremacy over the whole of their fellow-tribesmen, the representative of the family being known as Sirdar or Khan. The salt is quarried at Mari. opposite the town, where it stands out in huge cliffs, practically inexhaustible. The similar outcrop at Kalabagh itself is not quarried. The quantity turned out in 1871-72 amounted to about 2717 tons, and the revenue to £23,284. Alum shale also occurs in the neighbouring hills. Amp. Gaz.