[4] The Indian tradition on which this somewhat extravagant tale is founded is both too wild and too beautiful to be adequately wrought up in prose. Sullivan, in his history of Maine, written since the Revolution, remarks that even then the existence of the Great Carbuncle was not entirely discredited. [5] This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart related in Dunlap’s _History of the Arts of Designs_—a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply-interesting one, we should think, to the artist.