>
> > Indeed it does--move everything into leagues, and define one league
> > as the standard distance one walks in an hour, with an hour being
> > defined as 1/24th of a Gloranthan day. Who knows exactly how far a
> > league is in terrestrial measurement, but it is clearly defined in
> > Gloranthan terms.
>
> Of course, without a reliable chronometer you can't really be accurate in
> guaging "an hour".... ;-). (Oh, wait, it's the length of time needed to walk
> a league).
>
> And one man's league isn't the same as another's, or a horse's...
>
> RR
Among the voyageurs of the fur trade, time and travel was measured by how long it took to smoke a pipe (approximately an hour). It was surprisingly accurate, I discovered.
Jeff
-- Flight to Peru - £1000 Camping gear - £200 Native guide to take you into the mountains - £50 Radiation detector to find mysteriously radioactive old tomb - £150 Sledgehammer to break down stone door - £12.99 Awakening one of the Great Old Ones - priceless. There are some things man was not meant to know. For everything else, there's Mastercard.
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