400 RESOURCES ON THE ISLAND. 
will demand no trifling amount of exertion to 
keep it down, and render it serviceable. 
To those who are accustomed to trace the 
wisdom of God in the works of the Creation, 
the pursuit of botany will afford an ample fund 
of pleasure and refreshment. 
The fishing being good, a large supply of 
hooks and sea-lines, sent out to Norfolk Island, 
will have already been found useful. 
Phillip Island, about six miles distant, may 
be easily reached on a calm day. It abounds 
with rabbits ; a skilful marksman can kill suffi- 
cient, in a few hours, to fill his boat. There 
are, also, on this island, some beautiful wild 
goats, which may be got at with caution. Their 
flesh is not far inferior to our English venison. 
The study of books, which engaged a consi- 
derable portion of the day at Pitcairn, will still 
prove the islanders' employment and delight. 
An addition of some religious and useful works 
has lately been made to the library by the 
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 
The Pitcairn Fund Committee, sensible of 
the condescension and generosity shown by the 
Queen in favour of her loyal subjects, late of 
Pitcairn's Island, resolved, humbly to lay before 
Her Majesty the following dutiful address : — 
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
The humble Address of the Pitcairn 
Fund Committee. 
" We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, in the 
name of the Subscribers to the Fund, and for 
