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four-fold field-plot of the garden is situated on 

 this eminence. On the south-west part of this 

 garden is a reservoir of water twenty feet square, 

 which is wholly planted round with orange 

 trees ; there are likewise pomegranates. All 

 around the piece of water the ground is quite 

 covered with clover. This spot is the very eye 

 of the beauty of the garden. At the time 

 the orange becomes yellow, the prospect is 

 delightful. Indeed the garden is charmingly 

 laid out. To the south of this garden lies the 

 Koh-i-Sefid (the White Mountain of Nangenhar), 

 which separates Bangash from Nangenhar. There 

 is no road by which one can pass it on horse-back." 



These Memoirs were written by Babar in his 

 terse native Turki ; it is interesting to find his 

 grandson, the great Akbar, requesting the 

 scholar Mirza Abdal-Rahun to translate them 

 into Persian while the Court was on a progress 

 to Kashmir and Kabul, the latter country the 

 scene of so many of the adventures and fair 

 gardens described in the Tuzuk of Babar. 



All the best caligraphists and artists, whom 

 the catholic taste of the art-loving Akbar had 

 drawn around him, were employed to illuminate 

 copies of this work. The double illustration, 



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