CHAPTER III. 
THE VALLEY OF THE ROCKS. 
A steep and winding path leads from Lynmonth below 
the cliff to Lynton above. We follow, as the more breezy 
and pleasant route, the cliff-side path — cut on mid-cliff — 
leading from Lynton to the Valley of the Rocks. The path 
at first winds round to the left, and soon after leaving 
Lynton the cliff scenery becomes wild and romantic. Above 
us on our left great masses of rock jut out from the steeply- 
sloping surface of the cliff ; and as we advance, the cliff 
wears a wilder aspect as the jutting masses of rock become 
bigger, until the huge rocky excrescences appear to culmi- 
nate in one gigantic beetling mass, which, from its great 
height, frowns at the sea below. The side of the cliff 
beneath us, from our path to the sea, soon also begins to 
bristle with jagged points of rock, the interstices of which 
are, however, tilled with soft, green turf. As we proceed 
the path bends round to the left, the cliff both above and 
below us becoming jagged and fearful. Then we pass on 
our right another great pile of jagged cliffs falling steeply 
to the sea, succeeded at its termination by a steep bank, 
covered in places by turf, and strewn with large fragments 
of rock, at the base of which the waves foam and fret. 
Turning round again to the left, the path leads down from 
the cliff to the quiet-looking and romantic Valley of the 
Rocks, or rather as it should be more appropriately called, 
the valley between the rocks. The name gives one who has 
