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only their secretions, which showed through the glass like a 
brownish frosting. It looked beautiful, as well as wonderful, 
and their method of doing it was very ingenious. 
The next day, they commenced two tracks up the sides of the 
jar, by backing-up as high as they could reach with the extrem- 
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_Fie. 6.—Device of Eutermes to escape from a glass jar, in Mr. Beaumont’s Termita- 
rium, by coating the inner surface of the glass with cement, supplied from the eductors 
of the workers, so as to afford a foothold. The lower part of the jar is occupied with 
earth, and the cement-tracks were carried thence to the top in three days’ successive 
extensions, reaching to a, a, a, on the first day; to b, b, on the second; and to ¢, c, on the 
third. The two tracks unite at the star; and escape was effected at the top. One-third 
natural size, 
deposit, then turn around and back-up again. I think this was 
wonderful. These little fellows had never been in such a situa- 
tion before, yet, nothing daunted, they were equal to the occa- 
sion. While admiring their perseverance, I regretted seeing 
their attempt to escape from me, as I wished them to settle 
down and be contented. While this work was being done upon 
the sides of the jar, the majority were busy eating the pine 
wood and nest-building,—the work seeming to be divided up 
into sections (Fig. 6). 
