Malta, formerly called Melita, is an island of great value and strength. Oval in figure, its area would probably be found to involve the measure of one hundred square miles. Separated from Gozzo—the fabled isle of Calypso, by a channel between four and five miles broad, in the centre of which is an islet called Cumino or Cumina, it seems likely that at some remote period the three islands constituted one. In many parts of Gozzo excavations have led to such important discoveries that this smaller island is by many deemed a fine field in which lovers of antiquities would reap signal success: especially in reference to the period when Gozzo, as well as Malta, was under the sovereignty of the Knights.