> they built a levy to double the amount of dry land In English, the word you are trying to use is levee. As a French, you might recognize where that came fro

> they built a levy to double the amount of dry land In English, the word you are trying to use is levee. As a French, you might recognize where that came from ;) Actually though, at least in the US we call those things the Dutch built “dikes”, which is, not surprisingly, just the anglicized version of what the Dutch call them.