Linnaeus thanks Claes Ekeblad for his invitation to Stohla, where the inspector and his wife had looked after Linnaeus fairly well and were more informative than anyone else Linnaeus had encountered at Stohla.
Linnaeus reports that he had described the ancient oak tree, and copied the beautiful verses but asks who had written them. Linnaeus had observed numerous interesting things there that adorned his travel journal [Linnaeus refers to Wäst-göta-resa]; where hemlock is eradicated for the sake of the cattle and water dropwort for the sake of the horses, both of which grow in the canal.
Linnaeus thanks Ekeblad for making it possible for him to make a complimentary visit to the Crown Prince [Adolf Fredrik].