...ats and dogs or the remains of dead mules on the banking. The sun shone excessively hot, and the thermometer might have been 120°. We turned to the right and went down along the canal as far as Lake Pontchartrain , finding it all in the same condition until within a few rods of the lake. We drove back by a very different route. I sent immediately for the city officer charged with the superintendence of t...