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− | |sublink1= | + | |sublink1=Times and Seasons (15 Dec 1844): "As to the original inhabitants of the continent of America, the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense 'ruins' in central America" |
+ | |sublink2=John Taylor (1 Apr 1845): "cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America, exactly were the Book of Mormon left them" | ||
+ | |sublink3=Parley P. Pratt (13 Mar 1852): "Four-fifths, or perhaps nine-tenths of the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi" | ||
+ | |sublink4=Brigham Young (15 Aug 1852): "it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph" | ||
+ | |sublink5=Orson Pratt (15 Feb 1871): "they landed on the south-west coast of South America" | ||
+ | |sublink6=Brigham Young, Jr. (25 Mar 1883): "The leaders of the Church have in view the 5,000,000 of Lamanites located in Mexico" | ||
+ | |sublink7=George Q. Cannon (1 Jan 1890): "For these reasons we have strong objections to the introduction of maps and their circulation among our people which profess to give the location of the Nephite cities and settlements" | ||
+ | |sublink8=James E. Talmage (1899): "The hill, which was known by one division of the ancient peoples as Cumorah, by another as Ramah, is situated near Palmyra in the State of New York" | ||
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