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cd the Tea at Badeah, and afcended from it here, and 
not at any other place. But I am too fenfible of my 
own inability to decide, and leave that to better judges 
than lam. I only throw out what occurs to me, from 
the infpe&ion of the country, an infpe&ion as accurate 
as I am capable of. If any thing I have faid can in 
the leaft fupport that revelation, to which I dare de- 
clare myfelf a friend, even in this enlightened age, I 
fhall be very happy ; or if this trip of mine can be of 
any ufe whatever, as I had great pleafure in it, I may 
truly fay with Horace — Omne tulit punttum, &c. 
The denomination of ty© I believe, only regards 
the Hierapolitic branch, as the marine productions. 
Madrepores, &c. which form admirable forefls in the 
bottom of it, are not in the Elanitic branch, or the 
golf ; I mean the broad part below Cape Mahomet. 
No more than that weftern branch was known to the 
Ifraelites at the time of their paffage, if it was to the 
Egyptians : but the name descended to the whole, as 
their knowledge of it. The Red Sea feems to regard 
the broad part alone ; for tho’ there are not the above- 
mentioned fea productions, yet there is fo great a 
quantity of tube coral (not found in the weftern branch 
of the Hierapolitic golf) and fuch rocks,, as one may 
fay of them, that the Gedda fhips fallen themfelves 
to them inftead of calling anchor. It is of a deep 
red, fo that pofiibly, the firft navigators entering at 
the {freight of Babel Mandel, from the red they 
law, called it the Red Sea, and that name defcended to 
the whole with their navigation. This fea is tempeft- 
uous and full of fhoals ; there is no harbour on the Ara- 
bian coaft after Tor, except one, I mean between Suez 
and Gidda or Mecca, which is a day and a half from. 
Gidda : 
