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In Das Kapital, ch I.1, Marx says that German geologist Eschwege claims that

total product of the Brazilian diamond mines for the eighty years ending in 1823 still did not amount to the price of 1 1/2 years’ average product of the sugar and coffee plantations of the same country,

Where does Eschwege claim that?

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On page 833 of the Grundrisse, Marx cites an indirect source for this quote:

"H.A.M. Merivale, Letures on Colonisation. London 1841, Vol 1, p 52n"

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