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eighty-tree feet in length, by fifty in breadth ; 

 from the centre on the west side, a corps de 

 logis ranges a length of one hundred and forty- 

 eight feet, and of a proportionate breadth: 

 the whole is two stories high, substantially 

 built of stone, with more regard to interior 

 convenience than attention to symmetry, and 

 totally devoid of architectural decorations. 

 It contains the convent, hospital, and nearly 

 all the domestic offices. The church, about 

 one hundred feet in length by forty in breadth, 

 facing the Hotel Dieu Street, has nothing 

 to recommend it to notice but the plain 

 neatness of both its interior and exterior. The 

 convent contains the residence of the supe- 

 rieure, and accommodations for all the sisters 

 of the congregation. The hospital is divided 

 into wards for the sick, wherein both sexes 

 receive nourishment, medicine, and attendance, 

 free of all expense. This charitable institution 

 produces extensive benefit to the community, 

 and continually affords relief to great numbers 

 suffering under the accumulated oppression of 

 disease and poverty ; the funds by which it is 

 supported are derived from landed property 

 within the city, from whence it is entitled to 

 aWlods etvefiies; also from the revenues of some 

 seigniories that have been granted to it; and 

 although these are considerable, yet, from the 



