Duchesne Record | 1915-11-15 | Page 6 | Red Sea Colored by Weeds

Red Sea Colored by Weeds The drowning of Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea had nothing to do with with Its Its n name me It takes this tills from Crom a peculiar reddish color remarked at certain seasons of the year in parts partH of this spa sea due to marine plants or orlo orto orto to lo reddish called by sailors whale feed which float on it like lIle scum or to the reefs of red led coral which abound In many parts of it or or possibly to the fact that Its upper course was as one of the boundaries boundaries boundaries bound bound- aries of Edom the red No Biblical scholar of any arty repute has has' ever asserted a as- as that the tiro th sea took its name Iron the overthrow of Pharaoh