This characteristic often led him to unnecessary per-sonal exposure, and sometimes subjected him to reproach by the officers under whom he acted, who more than once, were compelled to remonstrate, and put before him its liveliest form the fact, that his life belonged not to himself, but to his country, and that the safety of the detachment he was guid-ing, depended upon his well-being. In the last days of his life, after his wound had been pronounced mortal, he lamented that he could not live to witness the prosperity of his country under her new institutions, and a similar feeling of regret pre-vailed among his friends and acquaintances for many years afterward. Like the great leader and lawgiver of the Jews, he had a glimpse of the promised land, but was not allowed to tread upon its confines. For six years he had been familiar with death. During this time he had full often confronted the "King of terrors," and knew and disregarded him in all the variety of his forms. Until his last excursion he had passed through the perils of the field without the slightest injury, so that at length some, apparently half in earnest, began to assert of him an immunity, such as the Thane of Cawdor claimed for himself, - that he wwas not destined to be harmed by one of woman born. It was but a few weeks before he received his mortal wound, that he conducted a large party below, which was met in Fordham by a detachment of the enemy still more numerous, and driven in some confusion across the Bronx. Here, while the American force halted to form anew, Dyckman perceived a continental officer bare-