Not identified. According to his article, the contributor was an Englishman, some time in the employ of the East India Co., as navigation engineer, stationed in Calcutta. Describes his supervising the launching of the steamer Megna, which, on one of its runs from Calcutta to AIlahabad in 1838, had grounded at Damadapore. Bengal registers of the late 1830s list the Megna and also the Jumna (another vessel mentioned in Webb's article); they list some residents named Webb, but not Jonathan Webb.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.