Acts 16:11

"Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made. straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis" "Straight course" "It is. nautical term for sailing before the wind" (Robertson p. 249). "The wind was favorable for the voyage across the north Aegean, and they finished it in two days (Acts 16:11). The reverse journey for Neapolis to Troas, recorded in Ch. Acts 20:6, took five days" (Bruce p. 329). "Samothrace" (SAM uh thrays). "A small island in the Aegean Sea, about 31 miles off the southern coast of Thrace" (Nelsons p. 943). About eight miles long, six across and very mountainous, with some of its peaks arising to 5000 ft., the island can be seen from both continents. "Neapolis" (nee AP oh lus). This was the port that served Philippi, and it is the same city as modern Kavalla. "From Neapolis they had. ten-mile walk inland to Philippi along the Via Egnatia, which ran right across the Greek peninsula from the Aegean to the Adriatic. Its massive paving stones can still be seen, worn down by the traffic of the centuries" (Stott p. 262).