And now, it was only the distance of a day and a half’s journey for a Nephite, on the line Bountiful and the land Desolation, from the east to the west sea; and thus the land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla were nearly surrounded by water, [i]3175[/i] there being a small neck of land between the land northward and the land southward. [v]135[/v]