Direct Distance Measurements

Narrow Neck Width

• Alma 22:32: "day and a half's journey for a Nephite, on the line Bountiful and the land Desolation, from the east to the west sea"
• Helaman 4:7: "day's journey for a Nephite, on the line which they had fortified"
• Key Question: How wide is this in real-world terms?

Travel Times

• Mosiah 7:4: Ammon's party wandered "forty days" in wilderness between Zarahemla and Nephi (they were lost)
• Mosiah 23:3: Zeniff "traveled many days in the wilderness"
• Mosiah 24:24-25: Alma's group traveled "twelve days" through wilderness to land of Zarahemla
• Alma 8:6: Three days journey from Melek to Ammonihah

Geographic Features

River Sidon

• Alma 2:15,27,34-35: Flows northward, Zarahemla located on east side
• Alma 16:6-7: Headwaters in southern wilderness
• Alma 22:27: Manti near the head of Sidon
• Alma 6:7: Bodies thrown into river north of Zarahemla flow "into the sea"
• Key Question: Which direction does it empty? Into east or west sea?

Narrow Neck Configuration

• Alma 50:34: Narrow pass led "by the sea, on the west and on the east"
• Alma 22:32: "nearly surrounded by water, there being a small neck of land"