an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty miles in circumference, and fifty miles from the north-east coast of Sumatra. Long. 104. 45. E. Lat. 0. 27. S.

GER, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, extending over 110 square miles, and containing 22,500 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name. It contains 776 houses, and 8111 inhabitants, who are employed in various manufactures. It is celebrated as the place where Wallenstein was put to death, and also for its mineral water, which is extensively dispensed in Germany. Long. 12. 18. E. Lat. 50. 5. N.

GERIA, a nymph who assisted Numa in framing a code of laws for the people of Rome. The king and the nymph used to meet at night in a wood at the gates of Rome, then called Lucus Campanarum, which is now, according to popular opinion, La Caffarella. When Numa died, Egeria was so violently affected with grief, that she frequently interrupted by her weeping the sacrifice of Diana, till the goddess in pity changed her into a fountain of the same name. (Ovid. Met. xv. 547; Liv. i. 19; Juv. v. 10.)