Georgian Bay
formerly LAKE MANITOULIN, the N.' E. part of Lake Huron, partly separated from the main body of the lake by the peninsula of Cabot's Head and the island of Great Manitoulin. It is about 120 miles long and 50 broad.
GERA (gā'rä), a town of Germany, capital of the small principality of Reuss- Schleiz, on the White Elster, 42 miles E. by S. of Weimar. Nearly destroyed by fire in 1780, it is for the most part a modern town, with broad and regular streets, but its older buildings building include a castle and a fine town hall. There are over a score of extensive woolen factories, besides cotton works, dyeing and printing works, manufactures of machinery, leather, tobacco, and beer for export, and four publishing houses; eight establish ments, employing 1,500 hands, turn out thousands of melodeons, accordions, and jews'-harps yearly. Pop. (1919) 73,641.
GERACE (jā-rä'che), a town of southern Italy, 4 miles from the sea, and 37 N. E. of Reggio. It has a cathedral, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1783, and a trade in wine, especially the esteemed Lacrima di Gerace. There are iron mines and a hot sulphur spring close by, and on a neighboring plain are the ruins of the ancient Locri. Pop. about 11,000.