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"