We found a comb, a gimblet, a vial, a small neat
square board, a pair of plated knee-buckles, and several samples
of cloth of different kinds, rolled neatly up within one another. At
length, while we were busy on the search, Mr. L--t picked up a
leathern case, which seemed to have been wrapped round and
round by some ribbon, or cord, that had been rotten from it, for
the swaddling marks still remained. Both L--w and B--e called
out that "it was the tobacco spleuchan, and a well-filled ane too";
but, on opening it out, we found, to our great astonishment, that it
contained a printed pamphlet. We were all curious to see what
sort of a pamphlet such a person would read; what it could
contain that he seemed to have had such a care about. For the
slough in which it was rolled was fine chamois leather; what
colour it had been could not be known. But the pamphlet was
wrapped so close together, and so damp, rotten, and yellow that it
seemed one solid piece. We all concluded from some words that
we could make out that it was a religious tract, but that it would
be impossible to make anything of it. Mr. L--w remarked marked
that it was a great pity if a few sentences could not be made out,
for that it was a question what might be contained in that little
book; and then he requested Mr.
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