We saw there a piece of meadow or marsh, which a Dutch woman had dyked in, and which they assured us had yielded an hundred for one, of wheat, notwithstanding the hogs had done it great damage.
He also dyked and cultivated a large piece of meadow or marsh, from which he gathered more grain than from any land which had been made from woodland into tillable land.
Here begin the red banks and dyked levels of the marsh country.
On the west were Habitant and Canard, once large rivers, but now dyked in and made fruitful even to the bottom of the ancient channels.
The island-formation is that of the opposite coasts, Midian and Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes.
The formation is of the coarse grey granite general throughout the Province, and it is dyked and sliced by quartz veins of the amorphous type, crystals being everywhere rare in Midian (?
They crop out of the normal trap-dyked grey granite, and select specimens show the fine panaché lustre of copper.
The granite hills, here as throughout Midian, were veined and dyked with two different classes of plutonic rock.
As my shadow grew ungainly, the dyked path struck across a long wet field against the black soil of which the dozens of white-clad peons with their mattocks gleamed like grains of rice on an ebony surface.
Enormous herds were visible for miles in every direction, bulls roamed here and there, bellowing moodily, cattle and horses by hundreds waded and grazed in the shallow swamps across which the dyked path led.
A great strip of Marsh lies contiguous to the city, some of which is dyked and yields excellent grass.
This is the finest part of the Province for stock; from the extensive tracts of salt marsh which lie in this county, many thousand acres of which are dyked and produce abundant crops.
Of something the same character as the dyked lands are the “intervales” along the rivers, which are said to be “invariably rich and productive.
Like Nova Scotia, the province has its salt marshes and dyked lands on the Bay of Fundy, and its “intervales” along the rivers, both famous for their enormous crops of hay.
The knoll of land, consisting of fourteen acres, now called the Grand-Pré Memorial or Historical Park, lies adjoining the dyked lands.
The dyked marshes extend for miles in blocks of pasture, grain, and haylands.
The row of willows on the north side of the Park grounds was set out to shield the church from the north winds that swept across the open dyked lands.
The quiet grazing cattle might still be the hardy kine that lived through those early winters on the abundant after-feed of the settler's dyked lands.
At the time of the Deportation of the Acadians, in 1755, most of the farm land, flanked by the dyked meadows, from the Gaspereau River to Kentville, held the villages and small hamlets of the people.
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