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nature of harmony, the performance was very 
remarkable." Mr. Brodie has given the names 
of 57 pupils being 30 males, and 27 females 
as the " list of Carleton's musical class." 
Hitherto their chief musical instrument 
in the church has been an accordion. But 
among the presents now designed for them 
is a capital small barrel and key organ, by 
Davison. This instrument has one row of 
keys, with a barrel to play ten of the best 
psalm and hymn tunes, and an octave and 
a half of pedals. 
With regard to Mr. Brodie, it is worthy 
of remark, that though he had been thus 
detained at Pitcairn, he arrived in the barque 
Colonist at San Francisco, in California, 
twenty-eight days before the Noble, which 
had been ninety-three days from Pitcairn, 
the crew having suffered great privations 
from want of provision and water. His dis- 
appointment, which appeared so grievous, in 
missing his ship at Pitcairn, ended in his 
escaping the miseries to which the people in 
the Noble had been exposed, and in reckoning 
those few weeks in the island as among the 
happiest of his life. 
