Duchesne Record | 1915-08-28 | Page 3 | Red Sea Colored by Weeds

Red Sea Colored by Weeds The drowning of Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea ha had I nothing to do with its name It takes this from a peculiar r reddish color remarked at certain seasons reasons of the year In parts of this sa sta due to marine plants or orto orto orto to redd reddish h called by sailors whale feed which float on it l ike like scum scorn or to the reefs of red coral which abound in man many parts of oC it or possibly to the fact that its upper course was as one ono of the boundaries boundaries boundaries bound bound- aries of Edom Edam the red No Biblical scholar of any repute has ever asserted asserted as us that the sea took its name from the overthrow of Pharaoh o