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an arrow in Figure 12. If the Jaredites went very far north at all, they
would likely have run into The Great Siberian Sea.

One thing to note here is that the Great Siberian Sea the man
showed on the map, which I tried to duplicate, was at its highest level. The
Jaredites probably came hundreds of years later, and this sea had likely
shrunk some. But it probably still had to be a significant body of water if it
took until the 1980s for it to totally disappear. However, there would likely
have been more land around its perimeter at the time of the Jaredites than
this map shows.
At the time I learned about the Great Siberian Sea at the math
conference, I hadn’t heard about it from Nibley. He does mention it in his
book [5], which came out at about the same time I learned of the sea in the
seminar. I don’t know if he had already written about it before his book
came out, and I had missed it, but it was good to see we had some
agreement there.
The scriptures give us another clue that this sea was probably there,
and that is how the Jaredites traveled after going north. Ether 2, right after
saying that they were led into the wilderness into a quarter where men had
not been, says the following:

Ether 2:6 And it came to pass that they did travel in the wilderness, and
did build barges, in which they did cross many waters, being directed
continually by the hand of the Lord.
Ether 2:7 And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the
sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even unto
the land of promise, which was choice above all other lands, which the
Lord God had preserved for a righteous people.

It is interesting to note a couple of things here. They built barges,
and it appears they made some type of craft that was familiar to them.
They did not have to be schooled in how to build them as the brother of
Jared later was by the Lord when they made the ships that were “tight like
a dish.” So, what kind of vessel were these barges?

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