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21 October, 02:05

What is the meaning of the word miscellany based on its context in this excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island?

A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said. Under that, the miscellany began-a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.

a. items of value

b. similar things

c. junk

d. collection of things