and communication skills. He was also indefatigable. He maintained an unrelenting schedule of work—writing, publishing, preaching, teaching, debating, running a large agricultural operation, as well as founding and leading an institution of higher learning. His travel was nothing short of extraordinary, given the modes of transportation of the day. He traveled widely every year from the 1810s to the 1860s, often for months at a time. In 1847, when almost sixty, he made a six-month tour of Britain