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CHAPTER IY. 
The coast of North Devon, from Lynton to Mor- 
winstowe (the first parish in Cornwall), is about 
seventy miles long; and perhaps in no part of 
England, of like extent, will you find so many ro¬ 
mantic scenes, or such treasures for the artist and 
botanist. 
Beginning with Lynton ; its glens !—what more 
glorious ? Its roaring rivers foaming over huge 
rocks ! Its thundering waterfalls ! Its shady, mossy 
woods, and graceful ferns! 
The wondrous Valley of Rocks, as its name im¬ 
plies, is strewn with large grey blocks of stone, 
now piled in fantastic masses, now rising in pictu¬ 
resque crags. A path winds through the centre of 
the valley, leading past the small bays of Lea and 
Woodabay, from which place by following the cliffs 
the pedestrian may arrive at Heddon’s Mouth, 
where great masses of stone shut in the land, shut 
out the sea, leaving only room for the rushing 
stream and narrow path to pass through. 
