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To continue, I’m going to assume the Jaredites followed this route.
You may disagree with this, and that is okay. It may give you some ideas
you can use to formulate your own opinions. But if they did go north, built
barges (Ether 2:6), and crossed some inland sea, they probably had to go
east since the prevailing winds in that part of the northern hemisphere are
westerlies, blowing eastward.
Something else points to the China coast for the Jaredites’ departure
across the ocean to America. Nibley [5] reminds us that the mountain
where the brother of Jared had the Lord touch the stones was called Shelem
because of its exceeding height (Ether 3:1), and there are not any
exceedingly high mountains in the direction of the Atlantic seaboard. But
there are high mountains on the China coast.
A good example of this is the Huangshan mountains, Figure 20 and
Figure 21. In Figure 22, a map, I added the location of the Huangshan
mountains.
There are no mountains as tall near the Mediterranean Sea, on the
European coast, or on the Arabian Peninsula, other sites that make sense
for the Jaredites to depart on their journey to America.

Figure 20: Huangshan Mountains

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