Even though the Nephite army had been able to recover some of their lands, they could not have recovered all of them. The Lamanite/Gadiantons were also not in complete disarray, as the result is a treaty, not the expulsion of the Lamanite/Gadiantons. This political treaty indicates that the military situation was indecisive, and that rather than continue to lose population through war, both sides accepted a settlement. That the Lamanite/Gadiantons had a powerful hand in this treaty is indicated by the statement “the Lamanites did give unto us the land northward… and we did give unto the Lamanites all the land southward.” Had the Nephites been militarily successful, such a division would not have been necessary. This does not appear to have been the traditional “southward” holdings of the Lamanites, but an expansion of their territory into the southward portion of the previous Nephite lands. The Nephites control of land area has been diminished, and they are even more concentrated in the lands northward.
Chronological: The three hundred and fiftieth year would be 340 A.D.
Textual: There is no chapter break at this point in the 1830 edition.