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twice afterwards under the same circumstances. However, her 
lover fell at last into an Indian ambush, and was to become a vic¬ 
tim of the Indians. Then she laid her head down with his on 
the block, and once more saved his life. This scene is re¬ 
presented by a bas relief, which is in the large rotunda in Wash¬ 
ington* Captain Smith was a married man, and on that account 
could not, when returning to England, take his benefactress with 
him; he made her believe that he was dead, and secretly went on 
board a ship. Some time afterwards, Pocahontas married Rolf, 
who succeeded her lover in the command of the settlement, and 
followed him to England. She met once, by chance, with her 
first lover in the street, whom she believed to have been dead, 
and soon sunk into such a melancholy state, that she left England, 
embarked for America, and died on the passage.* 
In very disagreeable weather we landed at Norfolk, a city of 
ten thousand inhabitants, and took our lodgings in Carr’s Hotel, 
a tolerably good tavern. I made acquaintance with Mr. Meyau, 
the French Consul, a very pleasant man. In his company I went 
the next day to Fort Monroe, distant fourteen miles from Nor¬ 
folk. We went in the Baltimore steam-boat. It fortunately hap¬ 
pened that our steam-boat, with the steam-boat Richmond, were 
engaged to tow the frigate Constellation into Hampton Roads, 
which could not sail on account of a feeble breeze. This road 
is intended to be the principal rendezvous of the United States 
navy, and is advantageously situated; it commands the Chesa¬ 
peake bay, which is to be connected by a large union canal with 
the Delaware, and consequently with Philadelphia, so that the 
ships built in the navy yard can go into Hampton Roads, where 
they will be armed. 
On a point of land called Old Point Comfort, in the above 
mentioned road, on which also is a light-house, lies the princi¬ 
pal Fort Monroe, and before it upon the sand-bank Riprap, a 
small casemated fort called Calhoun, to command the road or 
rather the passage from a nearer point. To prevent this position 
from being turned on its right wing by a land army, all the dry 
points between Norfolk and the surrounding impracticable 
marshes are to be fortified, and a large central arsenal with dry- 
docks is to be erected farther backwards in the bay, in order to re¬ 
ceive a whole fleet after a battle, and fit it out there. The frigate 
* She left an only son by her marriage with Rolf, who settled himself in 
America, and had two daughters. From these are descended the families of 
Randolph and Robinson, and from these the family of Claiborne, consequently 
the two eldest children of Mrs. Grymes, Charles and Sophrone are descend¬ 
ants of the unfortunate Indian princess. In the two families, Randolph and Ro¬ 
binson, the eldest son is named Powhattan, and the eldest daughter Pocahontas. 
At New Orleans I became acquainted with a member of the Robinson family 
who had formerly been governor of Louisiana. 
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