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facets of plates of encrinites, and, on a close inspection of 

 the weathered surfaces, I procured several remarkably 

 small and delicate spines, papillae and plates of an Echinus, 

 a little turbinated univalve, and several fine corals. The 

 late Mr. Anstice, of Bridgwater, informed me that a 

 trusty agent brought him a Productus from this Limestone, 

 and Mr. Baker, of that town, obllgingly showed me some 

 beautiful corals, which he had fouud in it." 



In a note to the above, Mr. Williams mentions that 

 Mr. Anstice had accompanied Professor ßuckland and Mr. 

 Conybeare in the survey of this Limestone, and supposes 

 that he was urged by these gentlemen to search it dili- 

 gently for fossils, in future. He also informs us that 

 Mountain Limestone was, about that time, shipped from 

 Brean Down to Bridgwater, for the repair of roads, and 

 suggests the probability that the Productus was found in 

 these stones, not in Cannington Park stone, and brought 

 by the " trusty agent " to !Mr. Anstice, for reward. It 

 appears that when Mr. ^\'illiams wrote the above, he not 

 only did not know of any fossils in the Cannington stone, 

 except corals, fragments of very minute encrinites, and 

 echini, and a little turbinated univalve, but doubted the 

 discovery of the Productus in it; therefore it appeai's 

 likely that the two or three bivalves seen by Dr. Pring, 

 Mr. Moore, and myself, in the cabinet at Bleadon, must 

 have been found after the above remarks were written. I 

 have not the slightest thought that Mr. Anstice was im- 

 posed upon by the " trusty agent." 



Since I read my paper at Taunton, and the discovery of 

 moUuscus Shells in this Lunestone has been othersvise men- 

 tioned, the Kev. W. A. Jones, of Taunton, and Äir. Moore, 

 of Brainster, in a brief search amongst some heaps of this 

 stone, by the roadside near Bridgwater, cracked out three 



