In the character of _Mr. P.'s_ Own Inn-spector I venture to pronounce the Valley of Rocks Hotel at Lynton delightful. Here everything is unpretentiously English, and even the waiters are not all foreigners. The supply of certain articles of food may on occasion run short (which ought not to happen), and consequently you can only complain of what you _don't_ get, very rarely of what you do. The other hostelries may be equally good, but of these _Mr. P.'s_ Own Inn-spector, being un-ubiquitous, cannot speak from experience. * * * * * The Valley of Rocks Hotel is so-called because it is _not_ in the valley but high up, and thence you can go down by the easiest possible descent, _i.e._ _per_ water-worked tram-way to Lynmouth, and so remount. Here we go up up up, and here we go down down down O, all day at threepence a head per journey, reduction on taking a quantity of tickets, not persons. * * * * * And here comes in my complaint. I do not know what numbers this "_ascenseur_" will carry with safety, but that it can _not_ carry more than twenty, all told, inside and out, with anything like comfort, I, not being "Your Fat Contributor," will honestly affirm. Whether the proprietorship is in the hands of a company, or in those of Sir TIT BIT NEWNES is of no importance. If Sir T. B. N. has the sole management, he may be trusted in future to look after this "_facilis descensus_" well and wisely. * * * * * The drivers of the Ilfracombe four-horsed coaches are all good whips; not showy, but careful. Pretty sight to see COPP'S mail, the Defiance brought at a trot between the two gate-posts, and tooled round the small lawn up to the Valley of Rocks Hotel, Lynton. N.B. Put your name down early for box-seat in Coppy-book. * * * * * Notice that the Defiance guard is a master of horn blowing. He tootles most of the popular tunes of the day with windy wariations, humourously causing deep bellowing bass notes to issue from the instrument whenever the coach is passing by a field of cattle. The guard takes an unfair advantage of these animals, as their peculiarity being to have no horns, _they are unable to return the blow!_ * * * * * [Illustration: A Bathing Cove.] Plenty of bathing; well managed; might be much better. _Advice gratis for "bain de luxe"_:--Take a boat, towels, spirit lamp, can of fresh water, &c., &c., discover natural bathing place on coast, snugly fixed up among the rocks,--and _there you are_. Don't forget to have with you refreshments for after bath. * * * * *