I ordered that the spring should be enclosed in mortared stone-work, 10 by 10, and that a symmetrical, right-angled platform should be built on each of its sides, so as to overlook the whole field of Judas-trees. If, the world over, there is a place to match this when the _arghwāns_ are in full bloom, I do not know it. The yellow _arghwān_ grows plentifully there also, the red and the yellow flowering at the same time.[819] In order to bring water to a large round seat which I had built on the hillside and planted round with willows, I had a channel dug across the slope from a half-mill stream, constantly flowing in a valley to the south-west of Sih-yārān. The date of cutting this channel was found in _jūī-khūsh_ (kindly channel).[820] Another of the _tūmāns_ of Kābul is Luhūgur (mod. Logar). Its one large village is Chīrkh from which were his Reverence Maulānā Ya`qūb and Mullā-zāda `Us̤mān.[821] Khwāja Aḥmad [Sidenote: Fol. 137b.] and Khwāja Yūnas were from Sajāwand, another of its villages. Chīrkh has many gardens, but there are none in any other village of Luhūgur. Its people are Aūghān-shāl, a term common in Kābul, seeming to be a mispronouncement of Aūghān-sha`ār.[822] Again, there is the _wilāyat_, or, as some say, _tūmān_ of Ghaznī, said to have been[823] the capital of Sabuk-tīgīn, Sl. Maḥmūd and their descendants. Many write it Ghaznīn. It is said also to have been the seat of government of Shihābu'd-dīn _Ghūrī_,[824] styled Mu`iz̤z̤u'd-dīn in the _T̤abaqāt-i-nāṣirī_ and also some of the histories of Hind. Ghaznī is known also as _Zābulistān_; it belongs to the Third climate. Some hold that Qandahār is a part of it. It lies 14 _yīghāch_ (south-) west of Kābul; those leaving it at dawn, may reach Kābul between the Two Prayers (_i.e._ in the afternoon); whereas the 13 _yīghāch_ between Adīnapūr and Kābul can never be done in one day, because of the difficulties of the road. Ghaznī has little cultivated land. Its torrent, a four-mill or five-mill stream may-be, makes the town habitable and fertilizes four or five villages; three or four others are cultivated from under-ground water-courses (_kārez_). Ghaznī grapes are better than those of Kābul; its melons are more abundant; its apples [Sidenote: Fol. 138.] are very good, and are carried to Hindūstān. Agriculture is very laborious in Ghaznī because, whatever the quality of the soil, it must be newly top-dressed every year; it gives a better return, however, than Kābul. Ghaznī grows madder; the entire crop goes to Hindūstān and yields excellent profit to the growers. In the open-country of Ghaznī dwell Hazāra and Afghāns. Compared with Kābul, it is always a cheap place. Its people hold to the Ḥanafī faith, are good, orthodox Muṣalmāns, many keep a three months' fast,[825] and their wives and children live modestly secluded.