ON THE AGE OF THE CANNINGTON PAEK LIMESTONE. * 387" 



Leonard Horner,) and specks of green Carbonate of Copper, in fact 

 the Barytes may be seen abundantly placed as an ornamental spar 

 on tbe tops of walls round houses. 



"We may take it then as proved that the limestone is Carboniferous. 

 It follows at once that it is totally disconnected with the Quantock 

 series, seen a few hundred yards off, and its isolated position 

 becomes one of great interest 



The Fault spoken of by Sir H. De la Beche must certainly exist ; 

 what the nature of the dislocations are we may remain ignorant of 

 for some time, but it seems certain that the Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone must exist as a roll, or anticlinal, (of which Cannington Park 

 is a small portion,) which probably holds for some way eastward 

 under the Somersetshire marshes ; certain it is that this is the most 

 southern exposure of the Mendip Limestone, and hence N. of it 

 under the Somersetshire Flats, we most probably have the 

 productive beds of the Coal Measures, or part of them. It seems 

 likely too, that they are at no great depth, as the New Red, or 

 Lias occupy the surface. A boring of 600 feet in the centre of the 

 marshes might probably determine the question. 



Hence therefore as Messrs. Bristow and "Woodward have already 

 said, our hopes of finding coal here are materially strenghtened when 

 once we have put aside the notion of the Cannington Limestone being 

 of Devonian age, and have recognised the Carboniferous character as 

 proved by fossils. 



