CHAPTER IV.
THE SACRED PLATES.
About two miles south of Joseph's home, in Manchester, is a large hill, the highest in that part of the country.

To this place Joseph went on the morning after the angel's visit, as this was the spot he had seen in his vision.

On the west side of this hill, not far from the top, Joseph found a large, rounded stone, nearly covered with earth.

Prying this up, he found it to be the lid of a stone box which was buried in the earth.

Raising the lid, he looked in, and there indeed were the sacred treasures about which the angel had told him.