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other appliances and means for the exercise 
of their talents and industry. If they at first 
miss their sweet potato, they have the Irish 
instead ; flour, instead of yams and plantains ; 
cows' milk, instead of milk from the cocoa-nut. 
The astonishment of the people, on viewing 
the magnificent structures of Norfolk Island, 
is said to have been great ; and they were much 
amazed 'and delighted at the sight of a horse, — 
a creature which they had never seen before. 
They were not long, however, in becoming well 
acquainted with the use of the noble animal. 
On the day after their arrival, several of them 
took their turns in riding the overseer's horse 
about the island; and by the severe exercise 
which they gave him, he was completely tired 
out by the evening. Jacob Christian, riding 
with more courage than skill, had a bad fall 
from one of the horses. 
The islanders have commenced farming and 
gardening operations ; and they have probably 
discovered, (or at least they have been assured 
by their judicious friend and Governor,) that 
labour, and plenty of it, will be necessary to 
advance their welfare and happiness. The 
various kinds of wood produced on the island, — 
maple, ironwood, and hopwood, — will supply 
materials for solid and ornamental box-making, 
creditable specimens of which have been sent to 
England from the same hands at Pitcairn. Some 
of the far-famed Norfolk Island pines may per- 
haps be found serviceable for the purposes of Her 
Majesty's navy ; whilst the too luxuriant growth 
of the vegetation, especially the wild cotton-plant, 
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