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+ | |sublink1=Observer and Telegraph (Nov 1830): "the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancestors landed on the coast of Chile" | ||
+ | |sublink2=W. W. Phelps: Ruins in Central America "good testimony in favor of the Book of Mormon" | ||
+ | |sublink3=American Revivalist (2 Feb 1833): "The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians" | ||
+ | |sublink4=Evening and the Morning Star (March 1833): "The continent of America is a choice land above all others" | ||
+ | |sublink5=Evening and the Morning Star (Jun 1833): "NO people that have lived on this continent, since the flood, understood many of the arts and sciences, better that the Jaredites and Nephites" | ||
+ | |sublink6=Evening and the Morning Star (Jun 1833): "Lehi was guided by the matchless power of God to this continent" | ||
+ | |sublink7=Question: Does the story of Zelph have implications for Book of Mormon geography? | ||
+ | |sublink8=Joseph Smith (4 Jun 1834): "wandering over the plains of the Nephites" | ||
+ | |sublink9=Eli Gilbert (24 Sep 1834): "was not the book of Mormon also written by men who were divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, on the continent of America?" | ||
+ | |sublink10=W.W. Phelps (Feb 1835): "The first one is where you sat day after day and wrote the history of the second race that inhabited this continent" | ||
+ | |sublink11=Oliver Cowdery (Jul 1835): "A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus" | ||
+ | |sublink12=W.W. Phelps (Oct 1835): "the Indians, whose history and doings, upon this western continent, it unfolds as plainly" | ||
+ | |sublink13=Joseph Smith (Nov 1835): "he said the indians were the literal descendants of Abraham" | ||
+ | |sublink14=W.W. Phelps (Jan 1836): "The book of Mormon has made known who Israel is, upon this continent" | ||
+ | |sublink15=William Smith (Jan 1837): "a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America" | ||
+ | |sublink16=Times and Seasons (Mar 1840): "The ancient events of America now stand revealed in the broad light of history, as far back, at least, as the first peopling of the continent after the flood" | ||
+ | |sublink17=Joseph Smith (19 Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America" | ||
+ | |sublink18=Parley P. Pratt (Aug 1840): "excavating in the neighbourhood of Bahia, in Brazil...bearing a strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in the northern parts of Norway, in Iceland, and in Greenland" | ||
+ | |sublink19=Millennial Star (Sep 1840): "We learn these gentlemen will continue their journey, and after their visit to Palenque, will proceed to Mexico" | ||
+ | |sublink20=Orson Pratt (1840): "they were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America" | ||
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