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Survey, & c.
Now, soft descending, from this height, we'll trace
The different Manufact'ries of the place;
But works so various Birmingham displays,
To view them all, would take some length of days.
Therefore each courteous reader, stranger, friend,
Back to your Inn, be pleas'd your way to bend;
T' amuse you there, I'll do the best I'm able,
And give a brief Description—in a Fable.[1]
- ↑ It was originally the Author's intention to annex "Tony Lumpkin's Ramble thro' Birmingham," written for, and spoken by Mr. Munden, at the theatre last season, and received with such unbounded applause:—But as the Ramble of the Gods contains a more circumstantial account of the different manufactories, &c. he presumes it will be more acceptable to the Public—to whom he submits it, with all due deference.
