P.C.S.S. believes that a little research would have enabled MR. LAWRENCE
(Vol. ii., p. 135.) to ascertain that _Solingen_ (not S_a_lingen) was
not the name of a sword cutler, but of a place in Prussian Westphalia,
long celebrated for the fabrication of that weapon, as well as of
fencing-foils. Of the latter instrument P.C.S.S. has several pairs in
his possession, all marked with the inscription "In Solingen." That the
Solingen manufactory still flourishes there, is stated in Murray's
_Handbook for Northern Germany_, p. 373.