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This entry indicates that Achille Murat purchased some acreage (later named Lipona) in St. Augustine. The acreage was, in fact, in Jefferson County Florida, as the entry later indicates, about 15-20 miles East of Tallahassee.

Murat was an avid proponent of the American Experiment. He strongly believed in the American approach to liberty and often wrote his European friends attempting to explain what he felt they could not understand unless they experienced it as he had, as an American citizen. Ironically, Murat also believed in the superiority of the "white" race and saw slavery as a very practical employment of the negro. He never tried to justify this belief against his democratic principles, he just didn't seem to be aware of the irony at all.

Murat wrote and published, both books and some of his own letters, on the U.S. He did not believe in drinking water, preferring wine or whiskey (Schnaps, as he called it) and considered himself a scientist and a naturalist. The instance, often reported, of his cooking crow was not so much a culinary success as an experiment to discern the best uses for his resources. He is known to have found the crow experiment an unsuccessful one.

OMacbeth 03:55, 2 February 2007 (UTC)