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mounting one step higher in the attainment and dignity 

 of creative faculties. And this pre-eminently was the 

 department in which Jonas Webb acquired a distinction 

 perhaps unparalleled to the present time. This has 

 made his name familiar all over Christendom, and 

 honored among the world's benefactors. Never, before 

 him, did a farm-stead become such a centre and have 

 such a wide-sweeping radius as his. 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 depart- 

 ments of improvement seldom, if ever, carried on simul- 

 taneously 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 improve- 

 ment as in the other. A few facts may serve as an out- 

 line of his progress in both to the American reader who 

 is familiar with the general result of his efforts. 



