Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveler who wrote seven centuries ago, spoke of the peak as containing the tomb, not the footmark, of Adam.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
By carefully looking about it is not difficult to find patches of soil covered with a greenish slimy growth; they are found best under bushes where the soil is not disturbed, or else where the soil has been pressed down by a footmark and not touched since.
"Lessons on Soil"
E. J. Russell
I made a clear footmark on the soft gravel outside the French window, and several on the drugget round the carpet.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley