1851  Advancing twelve or fifteen miles further to Horton and Wolfville, I found myself on the edge of the richest dyke-land in the province.
1896  (n.d.)  ". . . to our right lay far unrolled those rich diked lands which the vanished Acadian farmers of old won back from the sea. . . ."
1936  This is an area of fertile dyke lands. . . .