Downstream

way to earn a fortune, but
died while trying to swim
through the whirlpool rapids
on the Niagara River below
Niagara Falls. His object,
wrote Watson, ‘was not
suicide but money and
imperishable fame’. Today
there is a memorial to Webb
at Dover, and in his
birthplace of Dawley where
there is also a road and a
school named after him.
Shortly before Webb’s