And now on to Part 2 with Dr. Alex Baugh, Doctrine in Covenants 115 to 120.

One of the things I was excited to ask you today was, I don't know if these are myths or hearsay or second-hand, third-hand accounts.

People mention Adam's altar. It's hard to imagine there were people there that you

can't find a trace of, but Adam's stuff is still there. Also, a Nephite altar, but when I

researched it, I found actually what George W. Robinson wrote was a Nephite-ish altar,

which changes the meaning dramatically.

You're spot on, yeah.

What can you tell us about those?

Well, I'm just going to read to you what I wrote.

What you're going to read is that's from this new book, The Voice of the Lord,

Exploring the Doctor in Covenants, that you edited.

On this same occasion, we get the following report.

I'm going to summarize just a little bit.

When he identified this Spring Hill, it's so named by the brethren at that point in time,

as being Adam on Diomond, George W. Robinson, who's keeping Joseph Smith's book, this is his journal,

wrote that they discovered the remains, quote, of an old Nephiteish altar and tower.

This location soon became known by the saints that come here and soon thereafter, who settled in the area as Tower Hill.

And significantly, however, there was considerable speculation regarding what it was that the

company actually came across.

In early 1844, Willard Richards, the general church recorder began making a transcription of Joseph Smith's journal, the scriptory book.

For inclusion in Joseph Smith's official history, generally referred to as the manuscript history of the church.

When Richards came across the May 19th, 1838 entry made by Robinson about the location of Adam

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