Among them was a copy of the duke's grant of New Jersey.

Governor Nicolls was astounded at the folly of the duke's grant, and mortified by this dismemberment of a state over which he had been ruling for many months with pride and satisfaction.

But he bottled his wrath until the arrival of Carteret, whom he received at Fort James with all the honors due to his rank and station.

That meeting in the governor's apartments was a notable one.

Mr.Lossing graphically described it as follows: "Nicolls was tall, athletic and about forty-five years of age, a soldier, haughty and sometimes very irritable and brusque in speech when excited.