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