the Termites of Africa and other hot Climates. 
quite tranfparent, another like amber, a third brown* and a 
fourth quite opaque, as we fee often in parcels of ordinary 
gums. 
Thefe magazines are intermixed ' with the nurferies, which 
are buildings totally different from the reft of the apartments : : 
for thefe are compofed entirely of wooden materials, feemingly 
joined together with gums. I call them the nurferies becaufe 
they are invariably occupied 'by the eggs, and young ones, which 
appear at firft in the Ihape of labourers, hut white as flow. 
Thefe buildings are exceeding compact, and divided into many 
very fmall irregular-fiiaped chambers, not one of which is to > 
be found of half an inch in width ; (tab. VIII. fig. 5.). They are 
placed all round the royal apartments,- and as near as poflible to- 
them. 
When- the nefr is in the infant Irate, the nurferies are clofe 
to the royal chamber ; but as in procefs of time the queen - 
enlarges, it is neceffary to enlarge the chamber for- her -accom- 
modation.;- and as the then lays a greater number of eggs, and 
requires a greater’ number of attendants, fo it is neceffary to 
enlarge and encreafe the number of the adjacent apartments 
for Which purpofe the fmall nurferies which are firft' built are 
taken to pieces, rebuilt a little farther- off a fize bigger, and ■ 
the number of them encreafed at the- fame time. 
Thus they continually. enlarge their apartments, pull down, 
repair, or rebuild, according to their wants, with a degree of 
fagacity, regularity, and forefight, . not even imitated by- any 
other kind of animals or infedls that! have yet heard of. 
There is one remarkable circumftance attending- the nur- 
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fenes, which J muff not .at this -time omit. They are always 
found flightly overgrown with mould (tab. VIII. fig. 6), and ; 
plentifully fprinkled with fmall white globules about the fize. 
of a tmall Din’s head. Thefe at firft I took to be the eo'o-$ • but 
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