3. Such is the theory of the late Orson Pratt. See foot note "h" Book of Ether, chap. 2. There is nothing in the Book of Ether which positively determines the course of their travels, but as there is some reason for believing that the Jaredite colony landed on the western shores of North America, there seems to be some grounds for the belief that they were led eastward across the continent of Asia to the shores of what is to us the Pacific Ocean. 4. According to Orson Pratt. See foot note "h," Book of Ether, chap. 6:12. Also Book of Ether, chap. 7:6. 5. Ether 6:18. 6. Ether 7:6. 7. Ether 7:16. 8. Alma 22:32. 9. Ether 7:6, 16, 17. 10. Note "h" on Ether 6:12. 11. _Dictionary of the Book of Mormon_, Art. Mormon, p. 245. 12. Mosiah 21:25, 26. 13. Mosiah 8:8-11, also Helaman 3:6. 14. Mosiah 7:8-11. These plates were afterwards translated by the Nephite King, Mosiah, who was a seer; that is, one who could use Urim and Thummim. The record which he translated gave an account of the people who were destroyed, "from the time they were destroyed back to the building of the great Tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people. * * * Yea, and even from that time until the creation of Adam." (Mosiah 28:11, 17). Subsequently Moroni gave an abridged translation of the same record which he called the "Book of Ether," Ether being the name of the prophet who wrote the book so translated. 15. See the whole Book of Ether. 16. Ether 10:21. 17. Ether 9:1-3. 18. Ether 9:9. 19. See foot note to Ether 9:3. 20. Ether 10:21. 21. Ether 10:21. 22. Ether 9:16-20. 23. Ether 10:22-28. 24. Ether 1:42, 43. 25. Ether 9. 26. Ether 15 and foot note "b" p. 606. 27. Ether 6:23. 28. Ether 6 and 7. 29. Ether 3:9-16. 30. Ether 9:22. 31. Ibid. 10:28. 32. The orthography of the word cannot be determined, it is spelled "Shiblom" in the passage above, and Shiblon in another. 33. Ether 13. 34. Ether 15:33.