DAIR EL KAMAR, or the House of the Moon, a town of Syria, situated on a small rivulet, a branch of the Damauna. It is an extensive place, but ill built, and contains the palace of the emir or prince of the Druses, which is a spacious but ruinous edifice. The inhabitants, who amount to 1500 or 1800, are Greek Catholics, Maronites, and Druses. Eighteen miles north-east of Saïde.