...upposed to have been the theatre of the attempt to plant a settlement in America by the Northmen at the beginning of the eleventh century (see Northmen in America). It is believed to be the Vinland mentioned by them. Verazzani is supposed to have entered Narraganset Bay, and had an interview with the natives there in 1524. Block, the Dutch navigator, explored it in 1614, and the Dutch trad...