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The sea of the Red Man—i.e. Edom. Also called the “sedgy sea,” because of the sea-weed which collects there.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.