Note 497 — PART II. OBSERVATIONS on the Epidemical Diseases in the City of Aleppo. (continued 2)

Curds, or, as the English commonly call them, Gourdeens, are a race of hardy, robust people, who inhabit most of the mountains Amanus, and live chiefly by plunder, making excursions for this purpose into the neighbouring plains, and retiring to the mountains again whenever any force is sent against them.