Explanation of the plates to Mr. smeathman’s Account of 
the Termites of Africa, &c. 
TAB. VII. fig. I. The hill-neft raifed by the Termites bellicofi, defcribed 
page i 48. 
aaa. Turrets by which their hills are railed and enlarged, p. 150. 
Fig. 2. A feftion of tig. 1. as it would appear on being cut down through the 
middle from the top a foot lower than the furface of the ground, p. 154. 
AA. An horizontal line from A on the left, and a pe pendkular line from A at 
the bottom, will interfeft each other at the royal chamber, p. 154. 
The darker fhades near it are the empty apartments and paffages, which it 
feems are left fo for the attendants on the king and queen, who, when 
old, may require near one hundred thoufand to wait on them every day. 
The parts which are the leaft fhaded and dotted are the nurferies, furroun ed, 
like the royal chamber, by empty paffages on all tides for the more eafy 
accefs to them with the eggs from the queen,, the provifipn for the y ung, 
&c. N. B, The magazines of proviftons are lituated without any. feeming 
order among the vacant paffages which furround the nurferies. 
B. The top of the interior building, which often feems, from the arches 
carrying upward, to be adorned on the fides with pinnacle', p. 1 56. 
c. The floor of the area or nave, p. 156. 
ddd. The large galleries which alcend from, under all the buildings fpirally, 
to the top,, p. 156. 
EE. The bridges, p. 158. 
Fig. 3, The firft appearance of an hill-neft by two turrets, p. 150. 
Fig. 4, A tree,, with. the neft of the Termites arborum, and their covered way, 
p. 1 6 1;. 
efff. Covered- ways of the Termites arborum, p. 173. 
Fig. 5. A feftion of the. neft of the Termites arborum. 
Fig. 6. A neft of the Termites bellicofi, with Europeans on it, feemingly ob° 
lerving a veffel at fea, p. 15 1. 
Fig. 7. A bull (landing centinel upon one of tbefe nefts, while the reft of the 
herd is ruminating below, p. 151. 
cgg. The African, palm-trees, from the nuts of which is made the Oleum/ 
Palma:.. 
Tab.^YIII; fig. i-» A tranfverfe fedtion of a royal chamber, p. i^i„ 
aa. The thin fides in which the entrances ar e made, p. 152. 
Fig. 2. A longitudinal feftion of a royal chamber, p. 15 1. 
b. The entrances, p. 187. 
A. 1 he door.fhut up, as left by the labourers, p. 187.' 
Fig. 3. A royal chamber fore-fhortenech 
Fig. 4. I he fame royal chamber reprefented as juft ' opened, and d’fcovering 
(b) the qwen, and her attendants running, round her, p. 188, 
kb. A line drawn from b to b will run along the range off doors or entrances, 
P- 187. . 
aaa. A line run from a to aa will crofs the doo>-, which remains clofed as it 
