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csve, about ti^ht miles djftaiit from Aberdeen, on the Jea- 

 Cdc, has Its whnlc r<>i)f cruRcd over with lUlaftitic, of a 

 foot in lenirth, haiipini; down I'ke the fringe of a bed ; the 

 floor alfn is as deeply covered with conL'eries of llalagmitx ; 

 tlie upper coat, both of thefe and the (taladites, is of a fea- 

 coiiHir, but the inr er parts are as white as fal prunellx ; the 

 water which drops from tliefe is of a very peculiar nature, 

 for it is io acrnnonious, that if it touch the fkin but ever fo 

 flighily, it maiies it finart. N ar this cave there is another 

 hoHow rock, in which the Italaclita; make a very beautiful 

 fiijure : they are all f/rmed into long and thick columns, 

 and lla id perpendicularly, fo that thev reprefent the pipes 

 of an organ ; when broken, they are all found to be hollow 

 wiliiin. The rock, and all the Hone thereabouts, is of the 

 linnellone kind. 



S I'AI. BRIDGE, in Geogrophy, a fmall market-town 

 in the huidcic'i of Brownfhall, in the Sherbourne div fion of 

 Dorfeilhire, E'gland, is fituated near the banks of the river 

 Stoijr, on the N. fide of the county ; 9 miles E. from Sher- 

 b urne, and 113 miles W.S.W. from London. The manor 

 was aiicie;'.tly the property of thf abbey of Sherbourne: after 

 the difTolution of monalteries, Edward VI. j/ranted it to the 

 duke of Somerfet ; on his death it pafled to the Audley 

 family, and afterwards to Richard, earl of Corke ; he be- 

 que.ithed it to his fon Robert Boyle, who refided here many 

 years ; and his firll chemical experiments were made in the 

 manor-houfe in 1647. Peter Walter, efq. clerk of the peace 

 for Middlefex, afterwards purchaled the manor, and in his 

 family it has fir.ce continued. The town of Stalbridge, and 

 the greater part of the parifh, are feated on a rocky llratum, 

 whence the vicinity is fupplicd with (tone for building and 

 other ufes : the principal manufaftory here is that of (lock- 

 ings, which is carried on to a very confiderable extent. Two 

 fairs are held annually, and a market weekly, on Thurfdays. 

 In the population report of 181 1, the number of houfes in 

 this parith is iluted to be 141, of inhabitants 890. 



In the centre of the town is a ftone crofs, which, includ- 

 ing the bafe, is thirty feet high. At the top is a fquare 

 block, with four niches; thofe on the eaft and weft fronts 

 have the Crucifixion, with the Virgin, and St. John. On this 

 block ftood a crofs ; and from the top of the free-ftoneof the 

 pyramid to the hole in which this crofs was fixed, the height 

 is ten feet. At the bottom of this block are feveral coats of 

 arms ; one of them feems a chevron or fefs between three 

 rofes or efcallops. The pyramid itfelf is twelve feet high, 

 and all the angles are fluted. On one fide of it is a defaced 

 figure of our Saviour, with the lamb at his feet. The four 

 fides of the bafe are adorned with reliefs, one of which 

 feems to reprefent the refurredion of Chrilt, who holds a 

 croft in his hand. The whole ftands on three odagonal 

 flights of (leps, each diminilhing in the afcent. Hutchins's 

 Hillory of Dorfetfhire, 3 vols. fol. 1796, &c. 



STALE, in ylgricuhure, a term ufed provincially to fig- 

 nifythe handle of any thing or kind of tool, as a fork-Hale 

 &c. 



Stale, in Rural Economy, a term applied to the urine of 

 ammals : the (tale of horfes and fome other animals (hould 

 be carefully prelerved for ufe in the way of manure. See 

 Urine. 



Stale alfo denotes a living fowl, put in a place to allure 

 and br ng others where they may be taken. See Decoy 



For want of thele, a bird, (hot, his entrails taken out. 

 and dried in an oven, in his feathers, with a .lick thruH 

 through to keep ,t ,„ a convenient pollure, may fervc as 

 well as a live one. ' 



Stalb Furrow, in ylgrkuliurc, a term applied to a furrow 



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which has been long turned up, or in which the flice has 

 been for fome time expofed to the weather, in contradiilinc- 

 tion to that which is newly formed, or in a fre(h (late. See 

 SowiNf;. 



Stale Seeding, the cuftom or nraftice of feeding or 

 fowing land which has been long turned up, or in the 

 ploughed (late. The praftice, though common, and held 

 in much edeem with fome in di(ferent places, (hould pro- 

 bably never be had recourfe to, except in (ome cafes with 

 wheat, as where a firm and (olid bottom is required in con- 

 fequence of the too great friabihty or loofe powdery quahty 

 of the foil, as in putting that crop in after potatoes, in 

 fome inltances, and other fimilar produfti, which are apt 

 to caufe a very light Hate of the mould or foil. On account 

 of the convenience of breaking up the lay grounds during 

 a part of the winter fealon in (ome fituations, ftale feeding 

 of the land has been praftifed, efpecially with oats and fome 

 other forts of feed ; but how far it has been found either 

 beneficial or detrimental, has not yet perhaps been fairly put 

 to the teit of experiment. See Sowing. 



St.4le Sowing, in Gardening, the praftice of fowing or 

 putting in fome forts of feed into ground which has been 

 dug up fome time, and is in a (tale condition. This is in 

 fome inftances the cafe with peas, beans, and fome other 

 leguminous feeds, as well as thofe of fome other kinds ; but 

 it ought always to be as much as poilible avoided. See 

 Sowing of Seeds. 



STALECKE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of Mont Tonnerre ; i mile N.N.W. of Ba- 

 carach. 



STALIKON, a town of Switzerland, iu the canton of 

 Zurich ; 6 miles S.W. of Zurich. 

 STALIMENE. See Lemnos. 



STALING, a term ufed to fignify the aft of evacuating 

 the urinary bladder in the horfe or mare, ot other animal 

 ot the fame kind. In team as well as other horfes, it is a 

 humane and necelTary praftice to fufFer them to void their 

 urine at full leifure, and to encourage them to it by luhijl- 

 ling, or any other of the foothing methods which they may 

 underftand. The evacuation of urine is liable to interrup- 

 tion, profufion, and to be difeafed from various caufes, and 

 thereby to produce much injury to the animals. 



But neither team nor other horfes are much fubjeft to ftale 

 blood, unlefs in cafes where they have fuftained fome hurt, 

 or been drained in the loins or kidnies, and when fome of 

 the blood-vedels about the neck of the bladder have been 

 ruptured or burft open, or in cafes of erofion taking place 

 there, or in the palTage of the urine, by means of which 

 fome of the finaller and more minute velfels of thefe parts 

 may have been laid open, and fend forth a bloody fort of dif- 

 charge; but when this lall happens, it is mollly very fmall 

 in quantity, and but of (hoit duration, commonly going off 

 without any aftiftance in the way of medicine. 



In cafes where the urine paffes off in an intermixed bloody 

 'late, or blood comes away in an almod pure or clear con- 

 dition immediately after the ftaling of the animal, the com- 

 plaint may be removed, if the horfe is ftrong, well fed, and 

 in a full condition, by bleeding in a pretty plentiful manner, 

 according to the fize and date of the animal ; but if he be 

 of the team hard wrought kind, and low in condition, it 

 mud be ufed in a much more fparing way, and, in many 

 indances, be wholly omitted. After bleeding, and in thofe 

 dates of the difeale in which it is rnneccllary, the ufe of 

 mild adringent opiate remedies may often be employed in- 

 ternally with great advantage ; fuch as the red redringent 

 gum, in the quantity of two, three, or more drachms, ac- 

 cording 



