intercessant

Updated: May 1, 2025

I returned to Birmingham by omnibus after dark the same evening, and passing through the heart of the Black Country, made my first acquaintance with that dingy region its lurid light, its flashing tongues of intercessant flame, and its clouds of stifling, sulphurous smoke. Such, rapidly sketched, were my impressions of the place which was destined to become my future home.

Eliezer Edwards - Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men