148 LETTERS TO MARCO xxm 



ally built like this, and the tower has quite 

 the expression of having grown so like a 

 huge tree. 



From Cirencester we drove over to Fair- 

 ford, about eight miles, through very pretty 

 country, the watershed of the Thames. 

 I had never seen the Fairford windows, 

 and confess to being a little disappointed 

 with them, though much very fine colour 

 and quaint design abounds. I don't think 

 they deserve quite the praise that has been 

 bestowed upon them, and see little in them 

 to authorise the idea that they may be partly 

 designed by Albert Durer. The next day 

 we went to Lechlade, a place I knew, but 

 none the less glad to see again. The river 

 there is of course small and very much 

 twisted about, but has a wild beauty of its 

 own ; the cottages in the neighbourhood are 

 stone built, with exquisite roofs of flat stones, 

 lovely with moss and lichen. 



We arrived at Lechlade in the afternoon, 

 and remembering on a former visit the old 



