Carmel

a long range of low mountains in northern Palestine terminating at the Mediterranean in the promontory of Mount Carmel. The brook Kishon follows the northern foot to the sea. The Plain of Sharon is on the south, the Plain of Acre on the north. This is the region in which the prophet Elijah took refuge and was fed by the ravens. Mt. Gilboa is near the eastern extremity. Mount Carmel, overlooking the Bay of Acre, was early a resort of hermits. The Carmelites, a Roman Catholic order of mendicant monks, took their rise here. See Palestine

Carmen Sylva (1843-), the pseudonym of Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania. She has become a writer of some note.