j6o Mr. smeathman’s Account of 
fecond : thus they will run up five or fix of thefe turrets at the 
foot of a tree in the thick woods, and make a moil: lingular 
group of buildings (tab. IX.). 
The turrets are fo ftfongly built, that in cafe of violence they 
will much fooner overfet from the foundation, and tear up the 
gravel and folid earth, than break in the midtile ; and in that 
cafe the infedls will frequently begin another turret and build 
it, as it were, through that which Is fallen ; for they will con- 
ned! the cylinder below with the ground, and run up a new 
turret from its upperTide, fo that it will feem to reft upon the 
'horizontal cylinder only (tab. IX. fig. 5.). 
I have not obferved any thing elfe about thefe neits that is 
remarkable, except the quality of the black brown clay, which 
is as dark coloured as rich vegetable mould, but burns to an 
exceeding fine and clear red brick. Within, the whole building 
‘is pretty equally divided into innumerable cells of Irregular 
fhapes ; ibmetimes they are quadrangular or cubic, and fome- 
-times pentagonal ; but often the angles are fo ill defined, that 
each half of a cell will be fhaped like the infide of that fliell 
which is called the Sea-ear. 
Each cell has two or more entrances, and as there are no 
pipes or galleries, no variety of apartments, no well-turned 
arches, wooden nurferies, &c. &|.<they do not by any means 
excite our admiration fo much as the hill nefts, which are 
Indeed colledUons of wonders. 
There are two fixes of thefe turret nehs, built by two dif- 
ferent fpecies of Termites. The larger fpecies, the Hermes atrox , 
in its perfedt ilate meafures one inch and three-tenths from the 
extremities of the wings on the one fide to the extremities on 
rt’ne.Qther (tab. X. fig. 14.). The lefier fpecies, Ttrmet mordax , 
meafures 
