Nice print titled Convent of Mount Carmel, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression,  nice hand coloring, approx. page size is 27 x 20.5 cm, approx. image size is 19 x 12.5 cm. From: Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc., Illustrated. In a Series of Views Drawn from Nature, by W. H. Bartlett, William Purser, etc. With descriptions of the plates by John Carne. Fisher, Son, & Co., London, 1836-38.

Mount Carmel

Hebrew Har Ha-karmel

mountain range, northwestern Israel; the city of Haifa is on its northeastern  slope. It divides the Plain of Esdraelon (ʿEmeq Yizreʿel) and the Galilee (east  and north) from the coastal Plain of Sharon (south). A  northwest–southeast-trending limestone ridge, about 16 mi (26 km) long, it  covers an area of about 95 sq mi (245 sq km). Its seaward point, Rosh ha-Karmel  (Cape Carmel), almost reaches the Mediterranean; there the coastal plain is only  600 ft (180 m) wide. The mountain's highest point, 1,791 ft above sea level, is  northwest of the village of ʿIsfiyā. The name, dating back to biblical times, is  derived from the Hebrew kerem (“vineyard” or “orchard”) and attests to the  mountain's fertility even in ancient times.

Sanctified since early times, Mt. Carmel is mentioned as a “holy mountain” in  Egyptian records of the 16th century BC. As a “high place,” it was long a centre  of idol worship, and its outstanding reference in the Bible is as the scene of  Elijah's confrontation with the false prophets of Baal (I Kings 18). Mt. Carmel  was also sacred to the early Christians; individual hermits settled there as  early as the 6th century AD. The Carmelites, a Roman Catholic monastic order,  were founded in 1150; they received their first rule, or laws and regulations  governing the conduct of their order, in 1206–14. Their monastery (rebuilt 1828)  is near the traditional site of Elijah's miracle.

There are many fine parks and woods on the slopes of the mountain, both within  the city of Haifa and outside it. Much of the wooded area is included in the  Carmel Nature Reserve. On the southwest slopes are caves where archaeologists  found (1931–32) Stone Age human skeletons of a type previously unknown.