<P> The original is in the handwriting of early church leader Frederick G. Williams, who held a definite opinion on the subject of Book of Mormon geography . The statement was partially rewritten by church authorities Richards and Little and published as a "Revelation to Joseph the Seer" - a statement which the original did not contain . The Chilean landing site, promoted in the Williams document, matches Orson Pratt's geography . Prominent LDS would later call into question the statement's authority; but before this would happen, church leaders publicly attributed (without verification or proof) features of Orson Pratt's geography to Joseph Smith . The idea that Lehi landed on the coast of temperate Chile, thousand of miles south of Panama's narrow neck, and that tropical Colombia's thousand mile long Magdalena River is the River Sidon, were presented by church scholars as mainstream, majority views in the LDS community . </P> <P> Claims the Narrow Neck of Land is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec . Source: JM Sjodahl, An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon, 1927, pp. 415--418 . </P> <P> Claims the Narrow Neck of Land is Panama . Source: JA and JN Washburn, An Approach to the Study of the Book of Mormon Geography, Provo, Utah, 1939 . </P> <P> Source: Just One Cumorah by Riley Lake Dixon, SLC, Bookcraft, 1958 </P>

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