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                                                                      	      No 187   LYONS CATHEDRAL
                                                                      
                                                                      	The rose stem springs from the left hand bottom corner;
                                                                      	where there are two most exquisite small figures
                                                                      which I had not time to draw all buried in young
                                                                      shoots of rose;  The stem waves up - throwing off buds,
                                                                      leaves and flowers - to the angle:  then switches round
                                                                      like a crosier, twining as it curls, and rounding the
                                                                      edge of the circle with a continual succession of buds
                                                                      and leaves:  on which the figure stands, terminating at las[t]
                                                                      in the light blssom   The setting of the leaf on the
                                                                      angle in the light totake off its homeliness is quite
                                                                      lovely,  and heavenly.
                                                                      Romanesque.  Close to the Cathedral is a Romanesque building with
                                                                      an arched door, figs 1 and 2 No 187  It is seven or
                                                                      eight feet wide;  the band of squares alone projecting,
                                                                      the rest only marked by the masonry of the arch; and
                                                                      by the diamons of red ltiles let in; of which counting
                                                                      those so marked as 1 and 2;  that opposite to 1 will be
                                                                      the 27th.  In the band A colour section is at fig 2
                                                                      there are 52 squares, large at fig 3 and a half square
                                                                      let in in one place to fill up.  The outer line at a
                                                                      should be a semicircle and the breadth a b 2 or 2½ feet.

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