ABSTRACT
Engaged for a long time in a struggle for very life, the colonists were in no condition to cultivate anything but the soil upon which they trod. Scarcely had they a breathing-time, after their Indian foes were subdued, or driven from their immediate neighbourhood, before the French war again exhausted the strength of the infant nation. Once more at peace, had they been dependent upon their own resources, manufactures and arts must have been encouraged and cultivated. In order that the fine arts may be successfully cultivated, taste must be universally diffused among the higher classes of the community. Among the arts of design, Architecture must precede Painting and Sculpture: they are but the handmaidens who decorate her palaces, her capitols, her churches. A building that was thus brought over before the Revolution, remains at New Haven, Conn. It has been repaired by the present owner, and is a fine spacious English cottage.
