HERFORDEN, a city of Prussia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the Minden division of the province of Westphalia. It stands at the junction of the rivers Aa and Werre, and its walls are converted into promenades. It contains 1396 houses and 6804 inhabitants, with four Lutheran and one Reformed church. There is a large house of correction, with 500 prisoners, who are employed in spinning cotton. There are several mills for spinning and weaving cotton goods, and manufactures of linen. Long. 8. 33. 49. E. Lat. 52. 7. 25. N.
HERGEST'S ISLANDS, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, so called from Lieutenant Hergest, by whom they were discovered in 1792. They consist of
Riou's, Trevenen's, Sir Henry Martin's, and Robert's Isles, and extend from longitude 219. 47. to 220. 21. E. and latitude 7. 53. to 9. 14. S.