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Punch [[underline]] but could not get it unless I ordered 1½ krone supper. consisting of Ham and eggs. Weak beer obtainable without meal. All this decently enforced. Not a trace of drunkenness or even [[strikethrough]] boistrees [[/strikethrough]] boisterousness [[/underline]] Went to [[underline]] Bank [[/underline]] to get $100 all [[underline]] very businesslike quiet transaction 
Station clean, neat, quiet and orderly Everything well painted and polished Smörgoss [[/underline]] at the restaurant a [[underline]] very elaborate choice [[/underline]] of herring ^[[herring]] cold fish, meat, etc etc. A [[underline]] meal by itself Everyone is allowed to order a ^[[one]] glass of white whisky [[/underline]] Aquavit. with a slight taste of Caraway seed.
[[underline]] Aug 31 [[/underline]] I find that to day a [[underline]] boat leaves for Stockholm via the famous Götha Canal [[/underline]]
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Reserved Cabin No 1 for myself on the "B. v. Platen" The [[underline]] captain a very friendly cheerful [[/underline]] man speaks excellent English [[underline]] tells me I have the very cabin in which King of Sweden made the trip. Other passengers are all Swedes except 1 German and 2 English Clergymen and their wives [[/underline]]
This is a little spick and span boat; [[underline]] everything exquisitely clean and polished altho she carries local freight [[/underline]] Left at 10 AM. thru Canal Rocky shores, [[underline]] granite. Then meadow. Much traffic on the canal mostly ketches with auxiliary Semi-Diesel engines. [[/underline]] Passed an old fort and in front an [[underline]] Electrochemical factory making soda and chloride of lime. Landscape at first reminds [[/underline]] of upper   

Transcription Notes:
Dr. Baekeland is probably referring to the "G�ta Canal."