Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

---

1854

pg 215       water of fifty or sixty feet between the lake and the river, the 
             entire control of which was secured to the house, and which might 
             some day serve to put in motion a flour mill, a saw mill, or other 
             machinery.
                  Besides, it was a piece of land of one hundred and eighty 
             five acres, with a new house and a fine barn.  It was resolved to 
             establish on it at once a sanitarium for the Institution.  The 
             distance of half a mile suited, and the location on the bank of 
             the St. Joseph river was one of the prettiest and most healthy in 
             the whole country--so it was said.
                  Finally this famous piece of ground had one more advantage 
             which, though it necessitated another outlay which it might be 
             desirable to put off for a while, became in reality an economy and 
             a matter of prime importance.  The novitiate of the Sisters at 
             Notre Dame was the spot that had suffered the most from sickness;  
             the establishment at Bertrand had been kept up and developed only 
             with great hesitation and fear in view of the sentiments of the 
             bishop of Detroit, which were not growing more favorable; the 
             foundation of Mishawaka amounted to nothing ever since it had been