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much labor. The change would bring the asylum near a fine spring, much more necessary to it than to the hospital. It is manifest, that the asylum buildings cannot be improved as they ought to be while they stand on ground not belonging to them.  I therefore take the liberty to recommend, most earnestly, this change.

If the above changes be not made, then I recommend that assistance be given to the institution to remove the buildings to its own land, where they could be remodelled to suit the required purpose. There is a good place for them near the spring already spoken of.

The Friends, who manage the asylum, are good, devoted and modest - not ready to ask the Bureau for what they need; but working along in patience, and waiting in hope. They deserve all the favor that can be extended to them.

On the occasion of this visit I took with me forty-seven children from the asy-