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nicate by passages as wide, and being always 
empty are evidently made for the soldiers and 
attendants, of whom it will soon appear great 
numbers are necessary, and of course always 
in waiting. 
These apartments are joined by the maga- 
zines and nurseries. The former are chambers of 
clay, and are always well filled with provisions, 
which to the naked eye seem to consist of the 
raspings of wood and plants which the Termites 
destroy, but are found in the microscope to be 
principally the gums or inspissated juices of plants. 
These are thrown together in little masses, some 
of which are finer than others, and resemble the 
sugar about preserved fruits, others are like tears 
of gum, one quite transparent, another like amber, 
a third brown, and a fourth quite opaque, as we 
see often in parcels of ordinary gums. 
“ These m.igazines are intermixed with the 
nurseries, which are buildings totally different 
from the rest of the apartments: for these are 
composed entirely of wooden materials, seemingly 
joined together with gums. I call them the nur- 
series because they are invariably occupied by the 
eggs, and young ones, which appear at first in 
the shape of labourers, but white as snow. Idiese 
buildings are exceeding compact, and divided 
into many very small irrcgular-shajicd cham])ers, 
not one of which is to be found of half an inch in 
width. They are placed all round the rojail apart- 
ments, and as near as jiossible to them. 
“ When the nest is in the infant state, the 
