Stone Arabia is a piece of wordplay in German. Since the land was full of turnip-sized stones it was jokingly referred to as "stein rube" [u-umlaut] also expressed as "stein ruebe."

Given that distinctly German pronunciation of the u-umlaut just imagine how a frustrated English-speaker would render the curious sound and you'll have "Stone Arabia"

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|((|  David & Delande Anderson
|))|  Bethune-Thompson House (estd. 1784)
|((|  Glengarry County
|))|  Williamstown, ON  K0C 2J0 Canada
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|))|    Rev John Bethune (1751-1815)
|((|    David Thompson (1770-1857) mapmaker