Nor hath only the _Persian_ Sea received the same name with the _Arabian_, but what is strange, and much confounds the distinction, the name thereof is also derived from King _Erythrus_; who was conceived to be buried in an Island of this Sea, as _Dionysius Afer_, _Curtius_ and _Suidas_ do deliver. Which were of no less probability than the other, if (as with the same authors _Strabo_ affirmeth) he was buried neer _Caramania_ bordering upon the _Persian_ Gulph. And if his Tomb was seen by _Nearchus_, it was not so likely to be in the _Arabian_ Gulph; for we read that from the River _Indus_ he came unto _Alexander_ at _Babylon_, some few days before his death. Now _Babylon_ was seated upon the River _Euphrates_, which runs into the _Persian_ Gulph. And therefore however the Latin expresseth it in _Strabo_, that _Nearchus_ suffered much in the _Arabian Sinus_, yet is the original, that is, the Gulf of _Persia_. That therefore the Red Sea or _Arabian_ Gulph received its name from personal derivation, though probable, is but uncertain; that both the Seas of one name should have one common denominator, less probable; that there is a gross and material redness in either, not to be affirmed: that there is an emphatical or appearing redness in one, not well to be denied. And this is sufficient to make good the Allegory of the Christians: and in this distinction may we justifie the name of the Black Sea, given unto _Pontus Euxinus:_ the name of _Xanthus_, or the yellow River of _Phrygia_: and the name of _Mar Vermeio_, or the Red Sea in _America_. CHAPTER X Of the Blackness of _Negroes_.