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or Blok, Adriaen, Dutch navigator, visited Manhattan (now New York) about 1613 and again in 1614 in the ‘‘ Tiger,’ which being accidentally burned he built the ‘‘Unrest,’’ a sixteen-ton yacht, in which he coasted as far north as Nahant, discovering the Housatonic and the Connecticut and the island which bears his name. Blockade. - Civil Service Reform. 83