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