_Maps of Africa_ (Vol. v., p. 174.).--I have been intending for some time to write to you on the same subject as _Paterfamiliæ_, but the Christian grace of laziness has been too strong for me. _Paterfamiliæ_, however, has aroused me. My case is this: five years ago I commenced a map, for my own use, of the shores of the Mediterranean, and such countries as received Christianity up to the period of the Council of Nice; and I had a hope of eventually being able to carry out the plan suggested by DR. MAITLAND, in his work on the Dark Ages, and an intention of making mysterious marks to indicate the scene of any great persecution, remarkable synod, or other notable event. Well! I got on very well, by the help of Kiepert and Cramer, through Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy. Indeed, I managed to be content with all my sources, as far as Europe was concerned; but when I had advanced as far as North Africa, I came to a dead stop. There really was absolutely no map that I could find that I could trust for the site of Carthage or Alexandria. There were no "N. & Q." when I found myself at a stand-still; but I asked all the friends about me, and I verily believe that to the majority of those I spoke to it appeared an unreasonable thing for any man to expect a map of the regions I wanted described. There seemed a kind of feeling that when a man had got a map of Caffraria and Egypt, and perhaps knew where Algiers _might_ be, he knew quite as much about Africa as he ought. Can any of your correspondents now help me? Is there no authentic _French_ map of at least some portion of the coast; or is there any map in existence among ourselves that is not palpably a "fancy portrait?" AJAX. _Muggleton_ (Vol. v., p. 80.).--The Muggletonian sect probably still exists. I was surprised at finding a shop for the sale of its publications immediately within St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, about five years ago. Perhaps R.S. may think it worth while to look whether the same trade be still carried on there. J. C. R. _Passage in Hamlet_ (Vol. v., p. 169.).--I have just read A. E. B.'s Notes on Shakspeare, No. II. His long criticism, ending in his own suggestion of a new reading of the passage in _Hamlet_, does not convince me that he has found the true reading yet. I suggest the following: "The dram of base Doth all the noble substance often _dull_, To his own scandal." This reading of mine only makes it necessary to substitute the letters _n_ and _ll_, for _a_ and _o_, in the quarto of 1605. _Dull_ is a favourite word of Shakspeare's; and surely it makes at least as good sense as any of the other readings. It is questionable whether the lines are Shakspeare's; for the whole passage, from "This heavy-headed revel," to "To his own scandal," is omitted in the first and second folios, and also in the first known quarto of "1603."