CHAPTER VI. 
TORBAY. 
Starting from Paignton, and taking our way along its fine 
sands in a southerly direction, we soon leave the beach and 
follow a road which for some distance will take us up to and 
along the high land over the cliffs. We now have the sea on 
our left, and its blue waters charmingly contrast with the red 
of the soft sandstone cliffs in the indentations of the coast. 
Presently our cliff-path comes upon the carriage-road from 
Paignton to Goodrington, and if we follow this for a little way 
it will bring us down upon the fine sweep of the Goodrington 
Sands, locked in between opposing points of sandstone. 
There is a singularly quiet air of repose about this place-, and 
it is a really fine sight to see a big sea rolling in over its 
smooth hard foreshore. If in our course we take the route 
along this bay, we must at the farther end, if we would avoid 
too closely following the sinuosities of the coast, turn up by a 
road which passes under an archway of the Torbay Railway. 
Immediately on the other side we take a sharp turning to the 
left, and follow a footpath across fields skirting the landward 
side of the railway. Presently we ascend a steep upland, 
arrived at the top of which we pause for a moment and turn 
' round. 
On our right rolls the sea. In front and below, curving 
lines of railway leading away to Paignton, whose houses — 
clustered about most densely around its red sandstone church 
