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which Polixenes governed, was, evi- 
dently, maritime. As toShakefpeare's 
geographical ignorance, there are 
other mftances of it, equally flagrant. 
In *The Two Gentlemen of Verona^ he 
makes one of them embark at Verona 
for Milan, and the fervants talk of 
faving the tide. Would Shakefpeare 
have done this, if he had known that 
thefe are both inland cities ; that they 
have no communication whatever by 
water, and that there is no tide in 
the Mediterranean. Sir Thomas Han- 
mer was certainly right in blotting 
out the abfurd Bohemia -, but Illyria 
would have been a better fubflitute 
than Bithynia, which Bithynia was 
fituated on the black Sea, oppofite 
to the prefent Conftantinople. This 
Bithynia appears, from a line in 
Claudian, to have been very anciently 
called Thrace. 
ftyni fflraces erant, qua nunc 'Bithynia fertur. 
Probably it was peopled by a colony of 
Thracians croffing the Bofphorus, and there- 
fore called Thracia Afiatica. Now it is very 
improbable that Antigonus, who embarked 
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