Embanked

As it approaches its conflux, this creek becomes more and more embanked, and difficult to ford: the heights are equal on the two banks; but for this reason the advantage was in favour of him who defended the passage.

Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.

North of the wood from the Hospice Redoubt stood Red Château where today stands a cottage, its position edging what was then a sunken road, the remains of its original course still visible alongside the more embanked road of today.

The open floodplains in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle became more and more embanked, and therefore the conditions for flood-adapted, traditional floating rice increasingly declined.