Crossword-Solution: LITHS 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This work, originally of prodigious dimensions, he had cut into liths or thicknesses apparently for convenience of carriage.

Science, too, has laid its hold on caves only within a little more than a century; for it was not till 1774 that Esper recognized that the large bones taken from the caverns near Baireuth, in Bavaria, were not those of human giants, but of extinct animals, and he called them, they being petrified by limestone, _zoöliths_, or animal-stones; and it was his remarks upon them that drew Cuvier's attention to paleontology.