| Carefully, deliberately, Pamela Russell lowered her candle to the cannon's touchhole. |
| Built in India, the touchhole isn't drilled, so the importer can ship these almost anywhere in the USA without paperwork. |
| When I went online, I found one source that offers a repro with no hole drilled for the touchhole so it can be sold in England as a showpiece. |
| Firing was apparently accomplished by applying a red-hot wire to a touchhole drilled through the top of the thickest part of the breech. |
| Pulling up on the bottom of the serpentine brought the tip of the match down into contact with powder in the flashpan, a small, saucer-shaped depression surrounding the touchhole atop the barrel. |
| Then he laid that match to the touchhole and another rain of iron swept down the street. |
