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Keladon has obviously the same sense as the Gaelic Altgarbh, "the rough and brawling stream." Iardanus is also a stream in Crete, and Mr. Leaf thinks it Semitic "Yarden, from yarad to flow"; but the Semites did not give the Yar to the Yarrow nor to the Australian Yarra Yarra. While the correct geography may, on this showing, be that of Homer, we cannot give up Homer's claim to Nestor's speech.
An objection is now taken to Nestor's geography: he is said not to know the towns and burns of his own country. He speaks of the swift stream Keladon, the streams of Iardanus, and the walls of Pheia. There is nothing known of a Keladon or Iardanus anywhere near it." The Keladon is now the river or burn of Saint Isidore; the Iardanus is at the foot of Mount Kaiapha.
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