SURVEY OF NORFOLK ISLAND. 317 
" I may remark, that I found Norfolk Island 
no longer a penal settlement. The convict esta- 
blishment was withdrawn on the 7th of May; 
and it is at present occupied by an assistant 
commissary storekeeper, with a few hands en- 
gaged in rendering into tallow the surplus sheep 
intended for the Pitcairn Islanders, who are 
daily expected to occupy the island ; and whose 
hearts and minds, simple though they be, will 
not fail to adore the Queen and country which 
put them in possession, with fostering solicitude, 
of the most lovely island conceivable, with all 
the facilities for industry and comfort ; compris- 
ing fifteen square miles of land capable of tillage, 
800 acres cleared and fenced, beautiful roads in- 
tersecting it, eighty-one substantial buildings, 
including chapel, schoolroom, hospital, barracks, 
dwelling-houses, cottages, mills,, and workshops, 
together with household furniture, artisans' 
tools, and agricultural implements, the gardens 
stocked with seed, and the farms with 2,000 
sheep, 300 cattle, horses, pigs, and poultry. A 
bounteous bestowal indeed ! " 
Captain Denham sent home, among other 
things connected with his survey, Surgeon 
Rayner's " Natural History of Norfolk Island," 
and a list of trees and vegetables at Norfolk 
Island, by Mr. Milne, the gardener. The former 
was forwarded to Sir Roderick I. Murchison, 
Bart. ; the latter to Sir William J. Hooker, Koyal 
Botanical Gardens, Kew. 
In August, 1855, Sir William Denison, 
Governor of New South Wales, despatched from 
Sydney the Juno r a vessel of war, under the 
