None ever possessed such centripetal attractions, or exerted such centrifugal influences for the material well-being of different and distant countries.

Indeed, those most remote are most specially indebted to his large and generous operations.

America and Australia will ever owe his memory an everlasting homage.
His operations filled and crowned two great departments of improvement seldom, if ever, carried on simultaneously and evenly to a great success by one man.

His first distinguishing speciality was sheep-culture.

When he had brought this to the highest standard of perfection ever attained, he devoted the surplus capital of skill, experience and pecuniary means he had acquired from the process to the breeding of cattle; and he became nearly as eminent in this field of improvement as in the other.