LETTER FROM GEORGE ADAMS. 199 
Friend, I bid you farewell. Perhaps it may not 
be our chance to meet in this world, but 1 hope 
we may in a better world, where saints and 
angels meet ; and if it be our good luck to meet 
there, there we shall meet to part no more. I 
am obliged to close my letter in haste. 
" I remain, your sincere friend and well-wisher, 
" GEORGE ADAMS, 
" Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn's Island." 
Besides these letters, the author has some neat 
" copies," in a small round hand, signed respec- 
tively by Albina M'Coy, Reuben Elias Nobbs, 
Miriam Christian, Robert Buffett, Jemima Young, 
Martha Young, James Chester Adams, John 
Adams, David Buffett, Simon Young, Frederic 
Young ; the two latter being grandsons of Ed- 
ward Young, who was on board the Bounty. 
These copies are from well-chosen originals, 
given by their master to his pupils as exercises 
in writing. 
The following are specimens : 
" Religion conduces both to our present and 
future happiness. 
" Wisdom and understanding should be trea- 
sured in your heart. 
" Kingdoms and crowns must eventually be 
laid in the dust 
" Strive to deserve the friendship and appro- 
bation of good men." 
There is also a leaf out of Martha Young's 
ciphering-book* She was afterwards married to 
David Buffett. The pages are filled with accu- 
rately finished sums in several rules of arithmetic. 
