Convert barleycorn to legua (Spanish 18th century)
Selected category: length.
Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.
Definition and details for legua (Spanish 18th century):
Legua, the Spanish league during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was defined as a length of 8000 varas (4.15 miles or 6680 meters).