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STONE, a parish of England, in Kent, 2 miles E. by N. of Dartford. Population 438.-Another parish in the above county, 1 mile S. W. of Feversham.-Another parish in the same county, 5 miles S. E. of Tenterden.

STONE, a parish of England, in Worcestershire, 2 miles S. E. by E. of Kidderminster. Population 404.

STONE ARABIA, a village of the United States, in Palatine, New York, on the north side of the Mohawk. 52 miles W. N. W. of Albany.

STONEASTON, a township of England, in Somersetshire, near the coal-pits between Mendip and Midsummer-Norton, 6 miles N. of Shepton Mallet. Population 364.

STONE BAY, a small bay on the English coast, between Ramsgate, Kent, and the north Foreland.

STONEBECK, NETHER, a township of England, West Riding of Yorkshire, about 14 miles W. by S. of Rippon. Population

451.

STONEBECK, UPPER, a township in the above county, 1 mile distant from the foregoing. Population 341.

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

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about eighty feet broad at the base, gra dually diminishing in capacity as you de scend. A person may follow the stream with ease, 156 feet from the entrance, where it becomes so contracted as to check any farther progress. As might be expected, the reverberation of sound, from the discharge of a musket, is prodigious, and for a moment drowns every faculty in the wild echo of tumultuous sound. At a short distance, the southern and principal branch enters its passage amidst a heap of stones and rubbish that almost conceal the entrance; and, though with difficulty, its passage has been explored. In some places it is very much confined, in others it opens into caverns of 30 or 40 feet diameter, and is filled with water to a great depth. 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 threefourths 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.

STONECRAISE, a hamlet of England, in Cumberland, 2 miles S. E. by S. of Wig ton. Population 475.

STONE CREEK, a river of the United States, in Mississippi, which runs into the Mississippi, Long. 91. 13. W. Lat. 32. 8. N.

STONECROUCH, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Goudhurst, Kent.

STONEDELPH, a township of England, in the parish of Tamworth, Warwickshire.

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