Orson Pratt, as editor of the 1879 Book of Mormon, provides footnotes giving geography details for the Book of Mormon.

Date
1879
Type
Book
Source
Orson Pratt
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment, 1879), 47, 155, 238, 208, 559

Scribe/Publisher
Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment
People
Orson Pratt
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

23. And it came to pass that after we had sailed for the space of many days, we did arrive to the kpromised land; and we went forth upon the land, and did pitch our tents; and we did call it the promised land.

k, I. Nep. 2: 20, believed to be on the coast of Chili. S: America.

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12. Behold, I am Amaleki, the son of Abinadom. Behold, I will speak unto you somewhat concerning Mosiah, who was made king over the land of Zarahemla: for behold, he being warned of the Lord that he should flee out of the land of gNephi, as as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord, should also depart out of the land with him, into the wilderness.

g, see b, II. Nep. 5. The land of Nephi is supposed to have been in or near Ecuador, South America.

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15. And it came to pass that the Amlicites came upon which was the east of the griver Sidon, the hill Amnihu and Zarahemla, and there they began to which ran by the make war with the Nephites.

g Supposed to be Magdalena.

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31. And they came from there 2qup into the south wilderness. Thus the land on the northward was called Desolation, and the land on the southward was called Bountiful; it being the wilderness which is filled with all manner of wild animals of every kind; a part of which had come from the land northward for food.

2q, Into Bountiful and Zarahemla, South America being called Lehi, and North America, Mulek.

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2. And I Mormon, wrote an epistle unto the king of the Lamanites, and desired of him that he would grant unto us that we might gather together our people unto the aland of Cumorah, by a hill which was called Cumorah, and there we could give them battle.

a vers. 4-6, 11. Mor. 8:2. The hill Cumorah is in Manchester, Ontario Co., N. York.

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