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Shim, Hill. (about B. C. 200). So also did Ammon and his party (B. C. 122). When Limhi and his people escaped from the Lamanites, to avoid observation, they took a circuitous route around Shilom into the wilderness. A hill to the north of Shilom is mentioned several times, and it appears to have been a very conspicuous feature of the landscape. We are informed that it was a place of resort for the Nephites before they left that region under the guidance of Mosiah I. Later, king Noah built a high tower thereon. After the people of Limhi had escaped (B. C.122), the Lamanites reoccupied this land; and shortly after, Amulon and his associate priests were made teachers of the people residing therein. In the days of the mission of the four sons of king Mosiah to the Lamanites, all the inhabitants of this land were converted to the Lord.  SHIM, HILL. A hill in the land Antum (in North America), wherein Ammaron deposited unto the Lord all the sacred writings of the Nephites. (A. C. 321.) He instructed Mormon to go to this hill, when he should be 24 years old, take out the plates of Nephi and engrave thereon "all the things" that he had observed concerning the Nephites. The remainder of the plates he was to leave where they were. Mormon carried out these instructions, and in later years (A. C. 376), seeing that the Lamanites were about to overthrow the land, he removed all the records which Ammaron had hidden, to a safer place — the Hill Cumorah. A hill Shim is also mentioned in the Book of Ether, (Ether, 9:3), as lying on the line of travel of the fugitive king Omer, between Moron and Ablom, which we are of the opinion is the same hill as that in which the records of the Nephites were hidden.   SHIMNILON. A Lamanite city in the land of Nephi; its locality is not given. Many of its citizens were converted to the Lord under the teachings of the sons of Mosiah (Alma, 23:12, 13), 