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pursuits. He soon discovered that Stone possessed the same 
genius for architecture, and all the sciences that depend upon 
calculations and proportions. The works of Stone, partly 
original and partly translations, are as follow: viz. “ A New 
Mathematical Dictionary,” first printed in 1726, Svo.; “ A 
Treatise on Fluxions,” 1730, 8vo.; the direct rpethod being 
translated from the Marquis de 1’HospitaT.s “ Analyse des 
Infiniments Petites,” and the inverse method supplied by 
Stone himself; “The Elements of Euclid,” 1731, 2 vols. 
8vo., with an account of the life and writings of Euclid ; 
besides some smaller works. Stone was a Fellow of the Royal 
Society ; and communicated to it an account of two species 
of lines of the third order, not mentioned by Sir I. Newton 
or Mr. Stirling, which was printed in the 41st volume of the 
Phil. Trans. Hutton's Math. Diet. 
STONE (Henry), known by the name of Old Stone, to 
distinguish him from his younger brother John, was the son 
of N. Stone, a statuary. He is principally known as the 
copyist of many portraits by Vandyck; and they are ex¬ 
ceedingly close in their resemblance to the originals. He 
passed several years in Holland, France, and Italy; but died 
in London in 1653. 
STONE, a market town in the county of Stafford. It is 
situated on the northern bank of the Trent, and has con¬ 
siderably increased in extent and population since the 
establishment of the canal navigation between the Trent 
and the Mersey, which has opened a regular and cheap 
communication with many of the great manufacturing and 
commercial towns of Lancashire, Staffordshire, Warwick¬ 
shire, and more distant counties. It consists mostly of one 
long street, which is a pretty good one, and contains a 
newly formed market place. In the town is a free school 
or charity school. The church is a new erection, not 
unhandsome in its architecture, but disfigured by the small 
height of its tower. Stone is remarkable for the religious 
foundations which it anciently contained. Wulfere, king 
of Mercia, having murdered his two sons, and afterwards 
become a convert to Christianity, founded a monastery here 
in 670, in expiation of his crimes, which became a college 
of regular canons of the order of St. Augustine. His queen, 
Ermenudo, also established a nunnery here; but both these 
houses were injured, and the societies dispersed by the 
Danes. After the Norman conquest, the college and nun¬ 
nery appear to have been again filled with monks and nuns, 
at least the establishment at Stone became a cell to the 
more eminent house at Kenelworlh. About the year 1260, 
Robert de Stafford rendered the former independant of the 
latter. A considerable manufactory of shoes is carried on 
here ; and a very useful and improving manufactory of 
Rangeley and Diggles, late Rangeley and Dixon’s patent 
roller pump, employs a considerable number of hands. In 
1811, the parish of Stone contained 463 houses, and 2314 
inhabitants In 1821, it contained 500 or 600 houses, 
and little less than 3000 inhabitants, but the parish is 
very extensive, and in some parts populous. Market on 
Tuesday, and three annual fairs ; 7 miles north of 
Stafford, and 141 north-west of London. Lat. 52. 54. N. 
long. 2. 8. W. 
STONE, a parish in Buckinghamshire ; 3 miles west- 
south-west of Aylesbury. Population 592. 
STONE, a hamlet in the parish of Berkeley, Gloucester¬ 
shire.—Also a hamlet in the parish of Wimborne Minster, 
Dorsetshire, 
STONE, a parish of England, in Kent; 2 miles east by¬ 
north of Dartford.—Another parish in the above county ; 
1 mile south-west of Feversham.—Another parish in the 
same county; 51 miles south-east of Tenterden. 
STONE, a parish of England, in Worcestershire; 2 
miles south-east-by-east of Kidderminster. 
STONE ARABIA, a village of the United States, in 
Palatine, New York, on the north side of the Mohawk ; 52 
miles west-north-west of Albany. 
STONEASTON, a township of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire, near the coal-pits between Mendip and Midsummer- 
Norton ; 6| miles north of Shepton-Mallet. Population 364. 
STONE BAY, a small bay on the coast of Kent, between 
Ramsgate, and the north Foreland. 
STONEBECK, Nether, a township of England, West 
Riding of Yorkshire; about 14 miles west-by-south of 
Rippon. Population 451. 
STONEBECK, Upper, a township in the above county ; 
1 mile distant from the foregoing. 
STO'NEBOW, s. A crossbow, which shoots stones.— 
Hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone-bow. 
Wisd. —O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye! Shak- 
speare. 
STO'NEBREAK, s. An herb. 
STONE-BRIDGE CREEK, a small stream of the 
United States, in Washington county. New York, so called 
from a natural stone bridge under which it runs. The 
stream has its rise in Essex county. It enters the township 
of Chester a little above the bridge, and immediately falls 
over a rocky precipice, into a large natural basin ; whence 
turning easterly, it enters its subterranean passage in two 
branches. The northern branch enters its passage under an 
arch of massy granite forty feet high, and about eighty feet 
broad at the base, gradually diminishing in capacity as you 
descend. A person may follow the stream with ease, 156 
feet from the entrance, where it becomes so contracted as to 
check any farther progress. At the distance of 247 feet 
from the entrance, the waters disembogue in one stream, 
having united in the subterranean passage; and here is a 
precipice of rock, 54 feet high, which terminates the bridge. 
The arch through which the water discharges, is about ten 
feet wide and five high. This stream enters Scroon river, 
about three-fourths of a mile below the outlet of Scroon 
lake, and the stone bridge is about 3 miles north-west from 
the mouth of. the creek. 
STO'NECHATTER, s. [ rubetra , Lat.] A bird. 
STONECRAISE, a hamlet of England, in Cumberland ; 
2 miles south-east-by-south of Wigton. 
STO'NECRAY, s. A distemper in hawks. 
STONE CREEK, a river of the United States, in Mis¬ 
sissippi, which runs into the Mississippi. Lat. 32. 8. N. 
long. 91. 13. W. 
STO'NECROP, s. [pton epop, Sax.] A sort of herb.— 
Stonecrop tree is a beautiful tree, but not common. Mor¬ 
timer. 
STONECROUCH, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Goudhurst, Kent. 
STO'NECUTTER, s. One whose trade is to hew stones. 
—My prosecutor provided me a monument at the stone¬ 
cutter’s, and would have erected it in the parish church. Swift. 
STONEDELPII, a township of England, in the parish 
of Tamworth, Warwickshire. 
STO'NEFERN, s. A plant. 
STONE-FERRY, a township of England, East Riding 
of Yorkshire, so named from a ferry over the river Hull; 1± 
mile north-by-east of Kingston-upon-Hull. 
STO'NEFLY, .s. An insect. 
STONE FORT, a post village of the United States, in 
Franklin county, Tennessee. 
STO'NEFRUIT, s. Fruit of which the seed is covered 
with a hard shell enveloped in the pulp.—We gathered ripe 
apricocks and ripe plums upon oue tree, from which we ex¬ 
pect some other sorts of stone fruit. Boyle. 
STONEGRAVE, a village of England, North Riding 
of Yorkshire ; 4j miles south-east of Helmesley. 
STONEI1AM, Earls, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 
9 miles from Ipswich. Population 620. 
STONEHAM, Little, a parish in the same county, 
adjoining the foregoing. 
STONEHAM, North, a parish of England, in South- 
amptonshire, in the church of which is a beautiful monu¬ 
ment to the memory of Lord Hawke. It is situated on the 
river Itchen ; 4| miles north-north-east of Southampton. 
Population 662. 
STONEHAM, South, another parish in the above 
county also on the banks of the Itchen; about 1| mile 
distant from the foregoing. 
STONEHAM, 
