Melita
    (Acts 27:28), an island in the Mediterranean, the modern Malta.
    Here the ship in which Paul was being conveyed a prisoner to
    Rome was wrecked. The bay in which it was wrecked now bears the
    name of "St. Paul's Bay", "a certain creek with a shore." It is
    about 2 miles deep and 1 broad, and the whole physical condition
    of the scene answers the description of the shipwreck given in
    Acts 28. It was originally colonized by Phoenicians
    ("barbarians," 28:2). It came into the possession of the Greeks
    (B.C. 736), from whom it was taken by the Carthaginians (B.C.
    528). In B.C. 242 it was conquered by the Romans, and was
    governed by a Roman propraetor at the time of the shipwreck
    (Acts 28:7). Since 1800, when the French garrison surrendered to
    the English force, it has been a British dependency. The island
    is about 17 miles long and 9 wide, and about 60 in
    circumference. After a stay of three months on this island,
    during which the "barbarians" showed them no little kindness,
    Julius procured for himself and his company a passage in another
    Alexandrian corn-ship which had wintered in the island, in which
    they proceeded on their voyage to Rome (Acts 28:13, 14).



 Melita, affording honey