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merous progeny,; or for magazines, which are always found 
well filled with {lores and provifions. 
I fhall forbear at this time entering into a very minute 
account of the infide of thefe wonderful buildings, as the bare 
recital might appear tedious;; though I flatter myfelf, that 
when I have an opportunity or communicating it to the publick 
at large, the readers will follow me through an exadt defcrip- 
tion of them with pleafu re. 
Thefe hills make their Hrft appearance above ground by a 
little turret or two iin the Ihape of fugar loaves, which are run 
a foot high or more (“h Soon after, at fome little biftance, 
while the former are increafing in height and fize, they raife 
■ others, and fo go on increafing the number and widening them 
at the bafe, till their works below are covered with thefe 
■turrets, which they always raife the hlgheft and largefl in the' 
■middle, and by filling up the intervals, between each turret, 
(Collect them as it were into one dome. 
They are not very curious or ex aft about thefe turrets, ex- 
cept in making them very {olid and flrong, and when by the 
junction of them the dome is compleated, for which purpofe 
the turrets anfwer as fcaifolds, they take away the middle ones 
.entirely, except the tops (which joined together make the 
fCrown of the cupola) and apply the clay to the building of the 
works within, or to erefdng frefh turrets for the purpofe of 
sraifingthe hillock ftill higher; fo that no doubt fome part of 
the clay is ufed feveral times, like the boards and polls of a 
m a foil’s fcaffold. 
(it) Some of thefe turrets are reprefented in the view of their hills, (tab* 
VII. fig. 3.). I have feen turrets on the fidea of thefe nefts four or five feet 
high (tab. VII. fig, 1. a. a. a.). 
