_Prince Rupert's Drops_ (Vol. iv., pp. 234. 274.).--In your reply to the
Query respecting these drops, you state that it is not certain in what
country they were invented; I may therefore mention that the French call
them _larmes Bataviques_, from the circumstance of their being made in
Holland; from whence some were sent to Paris in 1656, to the Swedish
minister there, M. Chanut.