Which town?

This plateau where Her adventure unfolds is composed of different sorts of clay = for the main part and towards the ocean, it is a reddish, almost orange clay, quite dense and inhabited by termites; northwards, one often finds a yellowish clay, at times mixed with rounded pebbles, while westwards it will rather be a blackish clay with good water-retention capacity. The areas designated for the building of Her city are mostly of the first sort and the materials selected must be resistant to the industriousness of the termite colonies, which themselves know very well how assemble clay into durable structures.

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