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minute examination, madrlpores and shells will be found 

 in this Limestone, for there are laminte of calcareous spar 

 dispersed through it, which are streng indications of or- 

 ganic remains." 



In 1837, the lata Rev. D. Williams read a paper, to 

 the Geological Section of the British Association at 

 Liverpool, on the Geology of parts of Cornwall, Devon, 

 and West Somerset, wherein he says : " The Exmoor 

 and Quantock group is of such perfectly simple struc- 

 ture, as to be briefly explained by a series of emer- 

 gencies, the key to unlocking it being found in the 

 fact that the lowest and most ancient emerged at, and 

 towards, the north-east; thus, in the ascending order, 

 the Cannington Park Limestone, near Bridgwater, is the 

 lowest rock of all." In a subsequent part of this paper, Mr. 

 Williams intimates that he had found organic remains in 

 this rock, but he does not particularize any. 



In 1839 the Report of the Ordnance Survey of Corn- 

 wall, Devon, and West Somerset, was published under the 

 direction of Sir Henry De la Beche, and I copy the fol- 

 lowing remarks from p. 55 of this important work : " To 

 determine the place which the Cannington Park Limestone, 

 near Bridgwater, occupies in the Grauwacke series of 

 North Devon and West Somerset, is difficult. The Lime- 

 stone is so surrounded by Ked Sandstone, that its near 

 connection with the rocks of the Quantock Hills cannot 

 be traced satisfactorily." 



Soon after the publication of Mr. Horner's paper, when 

 I was a young geologist, my attention was called to the 

 author's prediction — that madripores and corals would be 

 found in the Cannington Park rock. I commenccd a keen 

 search for them on the old walls tliat boinid the park, and 

 I was soon rewarded with many good examplcs of vveather- 



