Joshua 19:26

Alammelech, and Amad, are at present unknown. Mishealhas been identified with Misalliat the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon.

and reacheth to Carmel This boundary struck Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath, somewhere to the south of that range.

Shihor-libnath Not, as some have supposed, the Belus, which falls into the Mediterranean near to Acre or Ptolemais, but south of Carmel, and probably the Nahr Zerka, or "Crocodile Brook," which rises in the Carmel range, and flows into the Mediterranean just above Cæsarea. For the existence of crocodiles still in the Zerka, see Macgregor's Rob Roy on the Jordan, p. 387, who also found a crocodile in the Kishon, which is only about 20 miles north of the Zerka, pp. 400 403. "I suspect," writes Dr Thomson, "that long ages ago, some Egyptians, accustomed to worship this ugly creature, settled here (Cæsarea), and brought their gods with them. Once here, they would not easily be exterminated; for no better place could be desired by them than this vast jungle and impracticable swamp." See Land and the Book, p. 497.