CANNINGTON PAEK LIMESTONE. 125 



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BY MR. W. BAKER. 



THE Limestone of Cannington Park has always been 

 a geological puzzle ; and, long since geology has 

 become a science worthy the attention of learned men, it 

 has been considered nonfossiliferous. 



Nearly forty years ago, the well knovra Geologist, 

 Leonard Horner, explored Cannington Park very care- 

 fully, and bis observations on it are published in one of 

 the early numbers of the Geological Transactions, in a 

 paper entitled, " Sketch of the Geology of the Western 

 part of Somersetshire." 



In this interesting and valuable report, Mr. Homer says : 

 " I examined this Limestone with very great care, in order 

 to discover whether it contained any organic remains, and 

 particularly at the decomposed surfaces, and at those places 

 where the stone was bruised by the blow of the hammer, 

 but I could not find the slightest trace ; and some of the 

 quarry men, who had worked there for several years, 

 told me they had nevcr found anything of the kind." 

 Notwithstanding Mr. Horner failed to discover fossils in 

 this rock, he records the following opinlon, in the paper 

 abovc quoted : " It is very probable that by a more 



