2. I quote from the 1838 edition. Mr. Josiah Priest's work, "American Antiquities," first edition, was published A. D. 1833, three years after the publication of the Book of Mormon. See Charles Tompson's "Evidence and Proof of the Book of Mormon," also I. Woodbridge Riley's "Founder of Mormonism," page 126, where in foot note 32 he says of Priest's work: "the first edition appeared in 1833, two other editions followed in that year." 3. The hill here described near the junction of the Susquehannah and Chemung river is about ninety-five miles in a direct line southeast of Cumorah. 4. Onondaga, about fifty-five miles due east of Cumorah. 5. Auburn, thirty miles east of Cumorah. 6. The lakes Cayuga, Seneca and Oneida, as is well known, lie a little to the south and east of Cumorah. Ontraio is a short distance to the north and Erie to the west. 7. Sixty miles east of Cumorah. 8. From this showing, then, there can be no objection to saying that the glass vessel was of Jaredite origin. In describing how the brother of Jared melted from the rock sixteen small stones it is said they were white and clear "even as transparent glass" of which the late Orson Pratt in a foot note says: "From this it is evident that the art of making glass was known at that early period." Ether iii: 1, and note "a." 9. The absence of traditions among the natives concerning these monuments rather inclines one to the belief that they must have been earlier than any possible Scandinavian occupancy of the country. 10. Scipio in Cayuga country, about forty-five miles east of Cumorah. 11. American Antiquities, pp. 259, 260, 261, 262. 12. Pompey between sixty and seventy miles east of Cumorah. 13. Less than fifty miles east of Cumorah. 14. Canandaigua, some ten or twelve miles south of Cumorah. 15. Both bodies of water but a short distance from Cumorah. 16. Less than seventy miles northwest from Cumorah. 17. The desperate ferocity of Nephite and Lamanite as described in the Book of Mormon is as good and even better explanation of the "infinite butcheries" here alluded to. See this volume, pp. 74-76, for description of this ferocity. 18. Less than one hundred miles due west from Cumorah. 19. The southern shore of lake Ontario runs due east and west about ten to twelve miles north of Cumorah for a distance of one hundred miles. 20. Was this convulsion in nature which changed the shore along lake Ontraio connected with those mighty cataclysms which shook the continent during the crucifixion of Messiah? 21. American Antiquities, Josiah Priest, pp. 324, 327, 328. 22. Enos i: 20. 23. Jarom i: 6. 24. Native Races, Bancroft, Vol. II., p. 344. 25. Mormon iv: 14, 15. 26. Mormon iv: 21. 27. Moroni ix: 5. 28. Moroni ix: 8. 29. Moroni ix: 10. 30. Conquest of Mexico, Vol. I., p. 73. 31. Native Races, Vol. II., pp. 310, 311. 32. Conquest of Mexico, Prescott, Vol. I., pp. 54, 63, 75, 76. 33. Alma xxiv: 16-18. 34. Alma lxiii: 5, 6. 35. Alma lxiii: 8.