<i 6 a Mr. smeathman’s Account of 
fecond : thus they will run up five or fix of thefe turrets at the 1 
foot of a tree in the thick woods, and make a paoft Angular 
group of buildings (tab. IX.). 
The turrets are fb ftrongly 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 middle ; and in that i i 
cafe the infects 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 upper fide, 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 nefts that is- 
remarkable, except the quality of the black brown clay, which 
is as dark coloured as rich vegetable mould, but bums to an i 
. exceeding fine and clear red brick. Within, the whole building 
is pretty equally divided into innumerable cells of irregular 
■fhapes ; fometimes 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 fhell 
- 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 nutferies, &c. &c. they do not by any means 
excite our admiration fo much as the hill nefts, which are 
indeed coliedtions of wonders. 
There are two ftzes of thefe turret nefts, built by two dif- 
ferent fpeeies of Termites. The larger fpecies, the Rennes atrox 9 
In its perfect ftate meafures one inch and three-tenths from the 
extremities of the wings on the one fide to the extremities on 
the ether (tab. X. fig. 14 )* The lefier fpecies, Termes mordax 9 
meafures 
