The Testimony of Incidental Witnesses.

[CHAPTER XXIII. ]

The Probability of Joseph Smith's Story of the Origin, Translation and Final Disposition of the Plates of the Book of Mormon.
I. The Ministration of Angels is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable.
II. To Believe in Media for Ascertaining Divine Knowledge is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable.
III. Of Returning the Plates of the Book of Mormon to Moroni.
IV. On the Loss of One Hundred and Sixteen Pages of Manuscript, Being the Translation of the First Part of Mormon's Abridgment of the Nephite Records.

[CHAPTER XXIV. ]

Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities. Preliminary Considerations.
I. What the Book of Mormon Requires as to the Location and Character of the Jaredite Civilization.
II. What the Book of Mormon Requires as to the Location, Extent and Nature of the Nephite Civilization.

[CHAPTER XXV. ]

Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities. Preliminary Considerations (Continued).
III. Of the Probability of Intercourse Between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres During Jaredite and Nephite Times.
IV. The Western World Since the Close of the Nephite Period—The Lamanite Civilization.
V. Of the Writers on American Antiquities.

[CHAPTER XXVI. ]

Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities.
I. The Evidence of the Existence of Ancient Civilizations in America.
II. Chief Centers of Ancient American Civilization.
Copan.
Palenque.

[CHAPTER XXVII. ]