11. I worked in the rice fields and helped dig canals and build dams. 12. I have been digging canals for a year, and I sleep on the banks at night. 13. Louis, the great-uncle, died while digging the canal when dynamite left behind during the French effort detonated. 14. Over the years, ranchers and developers moved to the swamp and dug drainage canals. 15. Similarly, foreign-funded agencies contracted local people to dig irrigation canals, to terrace mountainsides and to plant hedge-rows to stop the decay. 16. Sichuan Province was the earliest known beneficiary of such engineering, which deflected rivers and dug canals to bring prosperity to the region around Chengdu. 17. Some local army commanders are taking steps in that direction by assigning soldiers to civilian tasks ranging from digging irrigation canals to clearing pasture land for sheep and goats. 18. Still others dig small canals so water runoff will not settle in pools on the glyphs. 19. This canal will be dug from the Red Sea in Jordan to the Dead Sea in Israel. 20. Tide flats were filled in and canals were dug. |