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indirectly also, by contributing to the improvement of 

 artistic taste in America and the Colonies. But the time 

 has come when local schools of art especially created for 

 the immediate development of their natural products, 

 ought to be established not only in England itself, but in 

 the principal cities of our dependencies. Hitherto Rome 

 and Naples have almost entirely monopolised the trade in 

 certain artistic products, the raw material for which is 

 obtained only from the Bahamas. 



It is true that years may elapse before they can pro- 

 duce at Nassau cameos and ornaments equal to the 

 magnificent works of art which have proved so attractive, 

 especially to ladies in the Italian Court at the Fisheries ; 

 but surely, if there were a well directed school of art, even 

 on a small scale, in the capital, in the course of a little 

 time improvements would be manifested in the designs 

 and in the execution of the articles of personal adornment 

 which enter into the commerce of the colony. 



The art of carving cameos, inlaying with metals and 

 tortoise-shell, so as to make articles of elegant furniture — 

 the fabrication of what are called marine jewels and 

 mosaics — and even the manufacture, with the beautiful 

 coloured natural woods, of that exquisite kind of wood 

 mosaic, called in France " marqueterie," are arts by no 

 means difficult to acquire when once proper models, and 

 above all skilful teachers and directors, are procured. 



It would be well that attention be drawn to the pro- 

 priety of the establishment, at first on a small scale, of an 

 art school and museum, where under the tuition of one or 

 two competent persons, English and Italian — the best 

 artists for the purpose — a number of intelligent persons, be 

 taught all that is necessary to enable them, in a short time, 

 to produce workmanship worthy of competing with much 



