II. SIHOR: This is thought to be a City in the Western Part of the Tribe of Asher. This Place cannot be far from Carmel. M. Reland imagines,1 that this may be the City, or the River, of Crocodiles, which Pliny2 and Strabo place in this Country. Strabo says, it is between Ptolemais and the Tower of Straton, or Cæsarea of Palestine. The Hebrew reads Shibor-libnath3; and we think Libnath to be the white Promontory between Ecdippe and Tyre4, and that Sihor is a Rivulet of this Canton. Shihor signifies Trouble.
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