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tures. Nothing would conduce so much to the extension of 
trade as the abrogation of these prohibitions, and an equally 
ill judged discouragement on the export of timber in 
foreign vessels. 
Stockholm appears to have been founded in the 13th 
century, and to have owed its gradual increase to the 
commercial advantages of its situation, the court having 
continued at Upsal until the 17th century. Since then, 
Stockholm has been, like London, at once the seat of 
government and the centre of commerce ; like London also 
it possesses the advantage of water communication on a 
great scale, without being exposed to an attack by sea, or 
incurring alarms similar to those so severely experienced in 
the present age, by its southern rival Copenhagen. The 
population of the whole city and suburbs together, ap¬ 
proaches to 80,000; 320 miles north-east of Copenhagen, 
420 west of St. Petersburg, and 850 north-east of London. 
Lat. 59. 20. 31. N. long, of the observatory 18. 3. 30. E. 
STOCKHOLM, an extensive province of Sweden, which 
comprises the eastern parts of Upland and Sudermania, or 
the districts of Roslagen and Sodertorn, having an area of 
2736 square miles, with 100,000 inhabitants. The city of 
Stockholm, with a small territory surrounding it, forms, 
however, a separate government, and has its own magis¬ 
trates. 
STOCKHOLM, a post township of the United States, in 
Lawrence county, New York ; 30 miles east of Ogdensburg. 
Population 307. 
STOCKHOLM, a post township of the United States, in 
Morris county, New Jersey. 
STOCKHORN, a mountain of Switzerland, in the canton 
of Berne, among the Alps, 7200 feet in perpendicular height. 
STO’CKING, s. [The original word seem to be stock, 
whence stocks, a prison for the legs. Stock, in the old 
language, made the plural stockcn, which was used for a pair 
of stocks or covers for the legs. Stocken was in time taken 
for a singular, and pronounced stocking. The like cor¬ 
ruption has happened to chick, chicken, chickens. Johnson .] 
The covering of the leg.'—In his first approach before my 
lady he will come to her in yellow stockings, and ’tis a 
colour she abhors. Shakspcare. 
To STO'CKING, v. a. To dress in stockings. Stock- 
ing'd with loads of fat town-dirt, he goes. Dry den. 
STO'CKJOBBER, s. One who gets money by buying 
and selling shares in the funds. 
The stockjobber thus from ’Change-alley goes down, 
And tips you the freeman a wink ; 
Let me have but your vote to serve for the town, 
And here is a guinea to drink. Swift. 
STO'CKJOBBING, s. The act of buying and selling 
stock in the public funds for the turn of the scale, or on 
speculation.— A system, that ought to be plainest, and fairest 
imaginable, will become a dark, intricate, and wicked mys¬ 
tery of stockjobbing. Bolingbroke. 
STO'CKISH, adj. Hard; blockish. 
The poet 
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; 
Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, 
But music for the time doth change his nature. Shakspeare. 
STOCKLAND, a parish in Dorsetshire; 6 miles north¬ 
east of Honiton. 
STOCKLAND, a hamlet in Somersetshire; 6j miles 
north-west of Bridgewater. 
STOCKLEWATH, a township in Cumberland ; 8 miles 
south-by-west of Carlisle. 
STOCKLEY, a hamlet in the county of Durham; 4} 
miles south-west of Durham. 
STOCKLEY, English, a parish in Devonshire; 4| 
miles north-by-east of Crediton, 
STOCKLEY, Pomeray, another parish in the above 
county; ] mile distant from the foregoing. 
STOCKLINCH, Magdalen, a parish in Somersetshire; 
2| miles north-east of Uminster. 
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STOCKLINCH, Ottersey, another parish in Somer¬ 
setshire ; 1 mile distant from the foregoing. 
STO'CKLOCK, Lock fixed in wood.—There are 
locks for several purposes; as street-door-locks, called stock- 
locks; chamber-door-locks, called spring-locks, and cup¬ 
board-locks. Moxon. 
STOCKPORT, a large market town and borough of 
England, in the county of Chester, situated on the river 
Mersey. It is, strictly speaking, partly in Cheshire, and 
partly also in Lancashire; the portion in the latter county 
being called Heaton Norris, and united to the Cheshire part 
by a bridge over the river. The ground on which the town 
is built is very irregular. The central part stands on the 
top of a hill, which has a very steep descent towards the 
Mersey on the north, but is of easy access on the other sides. 
The parish church and the market-place are situated on the 
summit of the hill, which affords a level of considerable 
extent. Towards the north the hill becomes perpendicular 
for a height equal to that of the houses, a row of which 
encircles the base. The appearance of these houses is very 
singular, and some of them have apartments hollowed out 
of the rock. An upper row of houses on the top of the 
rock completely encircles the market-place; and from this 
central part, the town branches off in different directions, 
extending, by the recent increase of buildings, into the 
country on all sides. The streets are very irregular, and 
some of them so steep that loaded carts can with difficulty 
be driven down them. The principal public buildings in 
the town are the places of religious worship. Of these, the 
parish church of St. Mary is the most ancient. The date 
of this building, and of the founder, are both unknown; 
but the style of some parts of the architecture appears to be 
of the 14th century. It is a spacious structure, consisting 
of a nave, chancel, and side aisles. But the stone of it is so 
worn away, that an additional row of masonry has been 
carried up to support the steeple. The town contains a 
Calvinist chapel, various meeting-houses for Presbyterians, 
Methodists, Quakers, and other dissenters; and also a Roman 
Catholic chapel. The chief public institutions in Stockport 
are, a free school, founded in 1487 by Sir Edmund Shaw; 
an alms-house, endowed in 1683 by Edward Warren, Esq.; 
a dispensary, built in 1797 on a very large scale; and 
several Sunday schools, instituted in 1714, one of which, 
conducted chiefly by Methodists, is on so extensive a plan, 
that 3000 children, are educated in it gratuitously. A large 
school was erected by subscription in 1805. The population 
of Stockport and of the neighbourhood is chiefly employed 
in the various branches of the cotton trade; and it is on the 
flourishing state of this manufacture, which has been carried 
on here to a great extent, that the importance of the town 
chiefly depends. This trade naturally arose from the silk 
manufacture, which was early established here on a plan 
procured from Italy. On the decline of this business, the 
machinery was applied to cotton spinning. In 1810, ac¬ 
cording to a statement of Messrs. Lysons, there were then 
in the town 25 spacious factories for cotton goods, one silk 
mill, and several establishments for the making of muslin. 
Since that time, the manufacturing establishments of the 
town have greatly increased, and many of the mills are 
driven by steam engines. Besides the cotton manufacture, 
the making of hats forms a considerable branch of employ¬ 
ment in Stockport. The trade of the town in general has 
been greatly promoted by the canal which has been formed 
to Manchester, and which, by joining with the Duke of 
Bridgewater’s canal at the latter place, communicates with, 
and forms a branch of, the extensive system of canal navi¬ 
gation in this pait of the kingdom. The police of Stock- 
port is managed by two resident magistrates, two constables, 
four churchwardens, and three overseers of the poor The 
parish contains 14 townships, viz., Stockport, Bramhall, 
Bredbury, Binnington, Didsley, Duckinfield, Etchells, or 
Stockport Etchells, Hyde, Marple, Norbury, Offerton, Ro- 
miley, Torkinton, and Wernith. These are all populous, 
and appear chiefly to have been parts of baronies and 
manors; and in some of them there yet remain armorial 
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