CONTENTS. V 



PAOB 



Its chambers, corridors, and approaches. 24. Vertical section, 

 showing its internal arrangement. 25. View of these habitations. 

 26. Contrivances in their construction. 27. Use made of 

 them by the wild cattle. 28. Used to obtain views to seaward. 

 29. Use of domic summit for the preservation of the colony. 



30. Position, form, and arrangement of the royal chamber its 

 gradual enlargement for the accommodation of the sovereigns. 



31. Its doors. 32. The surrounding antechambers and corridors. 

 33. The nurseries. 34. Their walls and partitions. 35. 

 Their position varied according to the exigencies of the colony. 

 36. The continual repair and alterations of the habitation. 37. 

 Peculiar mould which coats the walls. 38. The store-rooms for 

 provisions the inclined paths which approach them the curious 

 gothic arches which surmount the apartments. 39. The sub- 

 terranean passages, galleries, and tunnels. 40. The covered 

 ways by which the habitation is approached. 41. The gradients 

 or slopes which regulate these covered ways. 42. The bridges 

 by which they pass from one part of the habitation to another. 

 43. Reflections on these wonderful works. 44. The tenderness 

 of their bodies renders covered ways necessary. 45. When forced 

 to travel above ground they make a covered way if it be acci- 

 dentally destroyed they will reconstruct it .... 97 



CHAP. II. 46. Turrets built by the Termes mordax and the Termes 

 atrox. 47. Description of their structure. 48. Their king, 

 queen, worker, and soldier. 49. Internal structure of their 

 habitation. 50. Nests of the Termes arborum. 51. Process of 

 their construction. 52. Hill nests on the Savannahs. 53. The 

 Termes lucifugus the organisation of their societies. 54. 

 Habits of the workers and soldiers the materials they use for 

 building. 55. Their construction of tunnels. 56. Nests of the 

 Termes arborum in the roofs of houses. 57. Destructive habits 

 of the Termes bellicosus in excavating all species of wood-work 

 entire houses destroyed by them. 58. Curious process by which 

 they fill with mortar the excavations which they make de- 

 struction of Mr. Stneathman's microscope. 59. Destruction of 

 shelves and wainscoting. 60. Their artful process to escape 

 observation. 61. Anecdotes of them by Koempfer and Humboldt. 

 62. Destruction of the Governor's house at Calcutta destruction 

 by them of a British ship of the line. 63. Their manner of 

 attacking timber in the open air their wonderful power of 

 destroying fallen timber. 64. The extraordinary behaviour of 

 the soldiers when a nest is attacked 113 



THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, 



OR FIRST NOTIONS OP GEOGRAPHY. 



CHAP. I. THE SURFACE OP THE EARTH : 1. Origin of the name. 

 2. Preliminary knowledge. 3. The distribiition of land and 

 water. 4. The undulations of the terrestrial surface. 5. GEO- 

 ORAIHICAL TERMS : 6. Islands. 7. Continents. 8. Peninsu- 

 las. 9. Isthmuses. 10. Promontories. 11. Capes and head- 



