A DESCRIPTION
Of
MODERN
BIRMINGHAM
Whereunto Are Annexed,
Observations
Made during an Excursion round the Town
IN THE SUMMER OF 1818,
INCLUDING
Warwick and Leamington
BY CHARLES PYE
WHO COMPILED A DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY
Anti-Jacobin, May, 1804.
PYE'S DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.
The author's avowed object, is to arrange the ancient and modern names,in a clear and methodical manner, so as to give a ready reference toeach; and in addition to this arrangement of ancient appellations bothof people and places, with the modern names, he has given a concisechronological history of the principal places; by which the book alsoserves in many cases as a gazetteer. We find upon the whole a clear andpractical arrangement of articles which are dispersed in more voluminousworks. Mr. Pye has condensed within a narrow space the substance ofCellarius, Lempriere, Macbean, etc. In short the work will be found veryuseful and convenient to all persons reading the classics or studyingmodern geography, and to all readers of history, sacred or profane.
British Critic, June, 1804.
PYE'S DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.
This may be recommended as a very convenient, useful, and relativelycheap publication of the kind, and may very properly be recommended forschools. The author very modestly desires that such errors and omissionsas will unavoidably appear in an attempt of this nature may be pointedout to him, for the benefit of a future edition.
Monthly Review, October, 1805.
We prefer the old mode of having separate divisions; the one includingancient and the other modern geography, to that of uniting both underthe same alphabetical arrangement. When the title of this work isconsidered, it is somewhat incongruous that the account of places shouldbe inserted under the modern names, and a mere reference under that ofthe ancient. These accounts appear to be in general correct, but theyare in our judgment too brief to be satisfactory. As the above writersays he prefers two alphabets to one; the editor hereby sets him atdefiance to produce two books in any language (however large they are,)from whence the student or traveller can collect such information as iscontained in this small volume, price 7s.
Mr. Pye also published a correct and complete representation of all theprovincial copper coins, tokens of trade, and cards of address, oncopper, that were circulated as such between the years 1787 and 1801;when they were entirely superseded by a national copper coinage. Thewhole on fifty-five quarto plates, price 20s. being a necessaryappendage to every library; there being a very copious index.
TO Wm. Damper, Esq.
One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
FOR THE
COUNTIES OF WARWICK AND WORCESTER.
SIR,
As you occasionally amuse yourself with topographical pursuits, deignto accept of the following pages, from
Your most obedient,
Humble Servant,
CHARLES PYE.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Whoever may take the trouble of looking into the following pages, willsoon perceive that in some instances the editor has been very brief inhis description of the public institutions; to which he pleads guilty,and accounts for it by observing, that the undermentioned card[1] waswritten and delivered by him personally, to every public institution, atthe respective places where the business is transacted, and when hecalled again, after a lapse of two mo