It was filled with characters like those which she had just written.

The leaves were not at all like paper, but seemed like some vegetable product, such as the leaves of a plant or the bark of a tree.

They were very thin, very smooth, all cut into regular size, and fastened together by means of rings.

This manuscript is written upon the same material.

I afterward found that it was universally used here, and was made of a reed that grows in marshes.
Here in these vast caverns there was no way by which I could tell the progress of time, but Almah had her own way of finding out when the hours of wakeful life were over.