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Stowey we find the red limestone much used for burning 
into lime. The black-hill Quarry affords the darkest of 
these limestones, and is rich in remains. I shall have 
much pleasure in presenting a slab from a large block that 
I have, to range with other speeimens of these limestones 
of the Quantocks which are already in your museum; at 
Asholt and Merridge the colour is of a purple hue. The 
limestone bed of Cannington Park is of a very different 
appearance to any we observe in the Quantocks, and I 
cannot consider it as being analagous; indeed, I have very 
little doubt in my own mind, that we shall succeed in 
plaeing it as a true mountain limestone, and having geo- 
logical reference to the Mendip range, rather than to the 
Quantocks. Full four years since, I broached this sub- 
ject to Mr. Baker, but his opinion, and that of those who 
had gone before him, was so contrary, that I gave it up 
for the time. It is satisfactory to me, however, that my 
discovery of shells there, now three years since, sufliced, 
at least, to shake the long formed opinion of our most ex- 
cellent friend, and for him to record, at any rate, that we 
were not to rely upon previous theories respecting. it. 
Holwell Cavern I have omitted mentioning, as Mr. 
Crosse’s admirable paper may be referred to, being pub- 
lished in our Transactions. It would be wrong hastily to 
try to give you any general deductions from the facts I 
have stated; I consider it much better to leave doing so 
until our knowledge of the distriet is more extensive and 
matured. One thing, however, I am satisfied of, viz., 
that the Quantocks are true Devonian rocks, and that the 
unmeaning and most unsatisfactory word “Grauwacke” 
should be given up as applying to them. 
Before I close, I would refer to an attempt we are mak- 
ing, to illustrate the geology of our county, by a collection 
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