1 $2 Mr. S ME AT H M A N*S Account of 
This Angular part would bear a long defcription, which I 
fhall not trouble you with at prefent, and only obferve, that 
its floor is perfectly horizontal ; and in large hillocks, fome- 
times an inch thick and upward of folid clay. The roof alfo, 
which is one folid and well-turned oval arch, is generally of 
about the fame folidity, but in fome places it is not a quarter 
of an inch thick, this is on the fldes where it joins the floor 
(tab. VIII. fig. is a. a.), and where the doors or entrances 
are made level therewith at pretty equal diftances from each 
other (tab. VIII. fig. 2. and 4. b. b.) 
Thefe entrances will not admit any animal larger than the 
foldiers or labourers, fo that the king, and the queen (who is, at 
full fize, a thoufand times the weight of a king) can never pof- 
fibly go out. 
The royal chamber, if in a large hillock, is furrounded by 
an innumerable quantity of others of different fizes, Ihapes, 
and dimenfions ; but all of them arched in one way or another, 
fometimes circular, and fometimes elliptical or oval, 
Thefe either open into each other or communicate by paf- 
fages as wide, and being always empty are evidently made for 
the foldiers and attendants, of whom it will foon appear great 
numbers are neceflary, and of courfe always in waiting. 
Thefe apartments are joined by the magazines and nurferies. 
The former are chambers of clay, and are always well filled 
with provifions, which to the naked eye feem to confifl: of the 
rafpings of wood and plants which the Termites deftroy, but 
are found in the microfcope to be principally the gums or in- 
fpiffated juices of plants, Thefe are thrown together in little 
maffes, fome of which are finer than others, and refemble the 
fugar about preferred fruits, others are like tears of gum, one 
quite 
