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This is the first map to show as a separate island the land of the “Manhates” Indians. Adriaen Block, a Dutch fur trader who arrived in 1611, began a coasting trip in the spring of 1614 on which he gathered information for his map. He sailed in his ship Onrust (the first boat built on Manhattan Island) “through Hellegat [East River] into the great bay [Long Island Sound] and explored all the places thereabout”. The territories of the “Mahicans”, “Pequats”, and other Indian tribes, soon to be well known to colonial settlers, are here shown; the “Meer Vand Irocoisen” (Lake Champlain) appears far east of the Connecticut River. Block Island was named after Adriaen Block.

• I. N. P. Stokes’ discussion of the similarities between the Figurative Map of Adriaen Block, drawn in 1614, and the “Velasco Map” of 1610/11 in the GALLERY exhibit, Color and/or modern reproductions of the “Velasco Map” — I

• a GALLERY exhibit on the 1610/11 map of North America, aka the “Velasco Map,” and its first printing by Alexander Brown in 1890 (reproduced as item CLVIII in Brown)

• a test of the new JPEG-2000 graphics format, using the Block map as a case study (includes a variety of JPEG-2000, JPEG, GIF, and PNG files)