But divers Moderns not considering these conceptions, and appealing unto the Testimony of sense, have at last determined the point: concluding a redness herein, but not in the sense received. Sir _Walter Raleigh_ from his own and _Portugal_ observations, doth place the redness of the Sea in the reflection from red Islands, and the redness of the earth at the bottom: wherein Coral grows very plentifully, and from whence in great abundance it is transported into _Europe_. The observations of _Alberquerque_ and _Stephanus de Gama_ (as from _Johannes de Bairros_, _Fernandius de Cordova_ relateth) derive this redness from the colour of the sand and argillous earth at the bottom; for being a shallow Sea, while it rowleth to and fro, there appeareth a redness upon the water, which is most discernable in sunny and windy weather. But that this is no more than a seeming redness, he confirmeth by an experiment; for in the reddest part taking up a vessel of water, it differed not from the complexion of other Seas. Nor is this colour discoverable in every place of that Sea, for as he also observeth, in some places it is very green, in others white and yellow, according to the colour of the earth or sand at the bottom. And so may _Philostratus_ be made out, when he saith, this Sea is blew; or _Bellonius_ denying this redness, because he beheld not that colour about Sues; or when _Corsalius_ at the mouth thereof could not discover the same. Now although we have enquired the ground of redness in this Sea, yet are we not fully satisfied: for what is forgot by many, and known by few, there is another Red Sea whose name we pretend not to make out from these principles; that is, the _Persian_ Gulph or Bay, which divideth the _Arabian_ and _Persian_ shore, as _Pliny_ hath described it. _Mare rubrum in duos dividitur sinus, is qui ab Oriente est, Persicus appellatur_; or as _Solinus_ expresseth it, _Qui ab Oriente est Persicus appellatur, ex adverso unde Arabia est, Arabicus_: whereto assenteth _Suidas_, _Ortelius_, and many more. And therefore there is no absurdity in _Strabo_ when he delivereth that _Tigris_ and _Euphrates_ do fall into the Red Sea, and _Fernandius de Cordova_ justly defendeth his Countryman _Seneca_ in that expression; _Et qui renatum prorsus excipiens diem Tepidum Rubenti Tigrin immiscet freto._