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remedies, which muft; have arlfen, he thinks, from their 

 either having ufcd too Imall a quantity, or not having 

 oblerved the necelFary precautions ; if thofe which he has 

 recommended fhall be put in praftice and found to anfwer, 

 he fliall think himiVlf amply rewarded. 



Tliis worm undoubtedly does great mjury to grain crops 

 in many cafes, in particular foils and forts of land ; but a 

 great number of additional fafts and experiments are want- 

 ing to fully prove its nature, and the ways in which its 

 deftrudtive effefts on fuch crops are produced, as well as 

 the belt, moll ready, convenient, and effeftual ways in which 

 it can be deftroyed. See Wike-^o;vh. 



Red Deer.,JiJh,Jlar,Jlorax, tartar. See the fubftantives. 

 Red Ink. See Ink and Piunting. 

 Red Notes, in old Mufic, befotrc the invention of printing, 

 were uied for diminution. In the MS. at Paris of the 

 Latin and French poems of Gullaume Machau let to mufic, 

 chiefly motets for a fingle voice, fome are written in black 

 and red notes, with this inftruftion to the fingers ; " ni- 

 grac funt perfeftas, et rubrx imperfectae ;" an admonition 

 worth remembering by thofe who wifli to decypher mufic of 

 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in which red notes 

 frequently occur. It was an eafy expedient of diminution till 

 the inventioii of the prefs, when the ufe of different coloured 

 inks on the fame page occafioned the trouble and expence 

 of double printing. See Machau. 



In the Pepyfian coUeftion at Cambridge, there are ex- 

 amples of the ufe of red notes for diminution in fragments 

 of mufic by Joleph Gwinneth and Robert Davie, who flou- 

 rifhed in the time of Edward IV. Morley has given fome 

 examples of the ufe of red notes in his annotations. 



Red Bank, in Geography, a fort of the United States, on 

 the S.E. fide of Delaware river, in the town of Woodbury, 

 Gloucefter county, New Jerfey ; feven miles S. of Phi- 

 ladelphia. 



Red Bay, a bay on the N. coaft of Spitzbergen. N. lat. 

 79° 44'. E. long. !0° 42'. — Alfo, a bay on the S.E. coaft 

 of Labrador. N. lat. 51° 50'. W. long. 56° 10'.— Alfo, 

 a bay on the N. part of Buffaloe's bay, on the S. coall of 

 Mafl'achufetts, in America. 



Red Crab IJland, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, 

 near the coatl of Arracan. N. lat. 21° 30'. E. long. 

 91° 50'. 



REDZ)«»-Z,al?, a lake of North America. "N.lat. 55° 10'. 

 W. long. 1 12°. 



Red Flaggy Bay, a bay on the N. coaft of the ifland of 

 St. Chriftopher, E. of Ragged Point. 



Red Haven, a bay of Scotland, on the N. coaft of the 

 county of Banff; three miles E. of CuUen. N.lat. 57^ 

 39'. W. long. 2° 38'. 



Red Head, a cape of Scotland, on the E. coaft of the 

 county of Angus ; fix miles S. of Montrofe. N. lat. 56° 

 33'. W. long. 2° 26'. — Alfo, the N. point of the ifland 

 of Eda. N. lat. 59° 6'. W. long. 2° 40'. 



Red Hills, rocks in the German fea, near the coaft. of 

 Northumberland. N. lat. 55° 26'. W. long. 1° 17'. 



Red Hook, a town of America, in the townfliip of Rhy- 

 nebeck, and Dutchefs county, Ne\v York, on the E. bank 

 of Hudfon's river ; 21 miles S. of Hudfon. 



Red Horfe, Vale of, a diftridl of England, in the county of 

 Warwick, which owes its name to a horfe cut in a hill, the 

 foil of which is reddifti. 



Red IJland, an ifland near the E. coaft of Labrador. N. 

 lat. 43° 55'. W. long. ^^° 50'. — Alfo, an ifland near the 

 W. coaft of Newfoundland. N. lat. 48° 35'. W. long. 

 59° 10'. 



Red Z.(3i«o a comparatively fmall lake of North Ame- 



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rica, at the head of a branch of the Bourbon river, fome- 

 times called " Red river ;" its form is nearly round, and 

 its extent is about 60 miles in circumference. It has on 

 one fide an ifland, clofe by which a river enters. It lies 

 almoft S.E. both from lake Winnepeck, and from the lake 



of the Woods. N. lat. si"" 5'. W. long. 94° 10' Alfo, a 



lake of North America, in N. lat. 47 40'. W. long. 95" 15'. 

 Red Lick, a fait fpring of the ftate of Kentucky ; 32 

 miles E. of Stamford. 



Red Point, a cape on the E. coaft of New Holland. 

 N. lat. 34° 29'. W. long. 208=^ 45'. 



Red River, a river of Louifiana, which rifes in about 

 N. lat. 35°, and W. long. 96^ and runs into the Miflifippi, 

 N. lat. 37° 15'. W. long. 91" 48'.— Alfo, a river of Upper 

 Canada, which runs into lake Superior. N. lat. 47° yi'. 

 W. long. 85° 48'. — Alfo, a river of Tenneflise, which runs 

 into Cumberland river, about two miles N.W. of Clarkf- 

 ville. N. lat. 36° 18'. W. long. 87^ 46'.— Alio, a river 

 of Kentucky, which runs into Kentucky river, about nine 

 miles above Boonfborough, N. lat. 37° 45'. W. long. 84' 

 18'. It is 60 yards wide at the mouth. — Alfo, a river of 

 North America, which rifes from Red lake, in N. lat. 47* 

 40', and runs into Winnipeg lake. — Alfo, a river of Canada, 

 which runs into the Utwas ; 60 miles W. of Montreal. See 

 alfo Natchitoches. 



Red Sea, called by the ancients the " Arabian gulph," 

 forms the grand natural divifion between Afia and Africa, 

 and extends about 21° or 1470 Britilh miles from the ftrait* 

 of Babelmandeb to Suez ; it terminates in two branches, 

 the weftern being extenfive, and the eaftern afcending a little 

 beyond the parallel of mount Sinai. 



This fea is called, in the Old Teftament, the fea of Suph 

 or Zuph, the fea of weeds, on account of the great quan- 

 tity of alga and fuci, and perhaps the madrepores and coral- 

 line fubftances, anciently fuppofed to be of vegetable 

 origin, found at its bottom, and near the ftiores. In fcrip- 

 ture language it is alfo denominated " the tongue of the 

 Egyptian fea ;" in the Greek and Latin geography, it was 

 called the gulph of Heroopolis ; and by the Arabian geo- 

 graphers, the weftern arm of the fea of Kolzum, (al Kol- 

 zum, with the article,) which feems to have fome affinity 

 with " Clyfma," another name by which this gulph was for- 

 merly known ; Kolzum in Arabic, and Clyfma in Greek, 

 fignifying dcftruftion, in reference, as it is fuppofed, to the 

 deftruflion of Pharaoh's hoft. Don Jol>n de Caftro, vice- 

 roy of the Indies for the king of Portugal, conjeftures that 

 it was called the Red fea from the great quantity of coral 

 that is found in it. Pliny fays that it obtained this name, in 

 Greek " Erythrea," from a king called Erythros, who 

 reigned in Arabia, and whofe tomb was feen in the ifland 

 Tyrine or Agyris. Several learned men believe, that this 

 king Erythros is no other than Efau, or Edom ; Edom, in 

 Hebrew, fignifying red or ruddy, as Erythros does in 

 Greek. But Calmet is of opinion, that Edom never dwelt, 

 either on the fliore of the Red fea, or the Perfian gulph, 

 which has been fometimes alfo called the Red fea. His 

 habitation was eaft of the land of Canaan, towards Bozra ; 

 and he inclines to beheve, that the name of the Red fea was 

 not given to this gulph till after the Idumeans, defcended from. 

 Edom, had fpread themfelves from eaft to weft as far as the 

 Red fea. At that time it might receive the name of the 

 fea of Edom, which the Greeks rendered by the Red fea, or 

 " thalafla erythrea." 



The famous miracle of the paflage of the Red fea by 

 600,000 Ifraelites, befides old men, women, and children, 

 recorded in the facred writings, is well known. Thofe 

 who have been defirous of explaining this paflage, with- 



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