Road-making, Embanking, draining, fencing, planting, and even building, are generally found to be required; and in connection with these things, and with the work more accurately included under the term agricultural, there are subsidiary forms of industry developed.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
No deepening, Embanking, straightening, canalization of the river is to be permanently effective until all danger of flood can be removed.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
An item in the Barnwell, S.C. Sentinel, reprinted in the News and Courier, Feb 8, 1881, declared: "The people of Charleston should have never hesitated as long as they have about Embanking in the manufacture of cotton goods, and we firmly believe, as the ball is started, that it will be kept moving...."
"The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South"
Broadus Mitchell