Verrazzano next sails along Long Island and enters Narragansett Bay, where he receives a delegation of Wampanoag and Narragansett people.

The words "Norman villa" are found on the 1527 map by Visconte Maggiolo identifying the site.

The historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote "this occurs at Angouleme (New York) rather than Refugio (Newport).

It was probably intended to compliment one of Verrazzano's noble friends.

There are several places called "Normanville" in Normandy, France.

The main one is located near Fécamp and another important one near Evreux, which would naturally be it.

West of it, conjecturally on the Delaware or New Jersey coast, is a Longa Villa, which Verrazzano certainly named after Francois d’Orleans, duc de Longueville".

Verrazano remarks that nearby Block Island appears similar to the Mediterranean island of Rhodes.

He stays here for two weeks, then moves northwards, …