No. 8
Say, Palfrey, brave good man, was this thy doom? Dwells here the secret of thy midsea tomb?
Book I. Line 627.
Colonel Palfrey of Boston was an officer of distinction in the American army during the war of independence. Soon after the war he proposed to visit Europe, and embarked for England; but never more was heard of. The ship probably perished in the ice. His daughter, here alluded to, is now the wife of William Lee, American consul at Bordeaux.