Explanation of the plates to Mr. smeath man’s Account of 
the Termites of Africa, &c. 
TAB. VII. fig. i. The hill-neft railed by the Termites bellicofi, defcribed 
page 148. 
a a a. Turrets by which their hills are railed and enlarged, p. 150. 
Fig. 2. A fedion of fig* 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 perpendicular line from A at 
the bottom, will interfed each other at the royal chamber, p. 154. 
The darker lhades near it are the empty apartments and palTages., 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 lead: fhaded and dotted are the nurferies, Turrounded, 
like the royal chamber, by empty palTages on all fides for the more eafy 
accefs to them with the eggs from the queen, the provifion for the young, 
&c. N. B. The magazines of provifions are fituated without any Teeming 
order among the vacant palTages 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 pinnacles, p. 156. 
c. The floor of the area or nave, p. 156. 
ddd. The large galleries which afcend from under all the buildings fpirally 
to the top, p. 156. 
EE. The bridges, p. 158. 
Fig. 3. The firffc appearance of an hill-nefi: by two turrets, p. 150. 
Fig. 4. A tree, with the neft of the Termites arborum, and their covered way,* 
p. 1 6 1. 
ffff. Covered ways of the Termites arborum, p. 173. 
Fig. 5. A fedion of the neft of the Termites arborum. 
Fig. 6. A nell of the Termites bellicofi, with Europeans on it, feemingly ob- 
ferving a veflel at fea, p. 1 5,1. 
Fig. 7. A bull Handing centinel upon one of thefe nefis, while the reft of the 
herd is ruminating below, p. 151. 
ggg. The African palm-trees, from the nuts of which is made the Oleum, 
Palmas. 
Tab. VIII. fig. I. A tranfverfe Tedion of a royal chamber,., p. 151. 
qq% The thin fides in which the entrances are made, p. 152. 
Fig. 2. A longitudinal fed ion of a royal chamber, p. 15.1. 
b . The entrances, p. 187. 
a. The door Ihut up, as left by the labourers, p. 187. 
Fig. 3. A royal chamber fore-lhortened. 
Fig. 4. The fame royal chamber reprefented as juft opened,- and difcovering ... 
(b) the queen, and her attendants running round her, p. 188. 
bb . A line drawn from b to b will run along the range of doors or entrances,. 
P- i8 7 \ 
aaa. A line run from a to aa will crofs the door, which remains clofed as it 
was found. The reft are reprefented as they appear fince the mortar, 
with. 
