Some way down the central path - Tradução em português

"Soon I came to a large open space and, striking another match, saw that I had entered an enormous underground room. It stretched into total darkness beyond my light.
Great shapes like large machines rose out of the darkness, and made strange shadows in which I could see the shapes of Morlocks hiding. The air wasn't very fresh and there was a faint smell of fresh blood. Some way down the central path was a little table of white metal, covered with food. So the Morlocks, at least, were meat-easter!"

Há como saber se a mesa fica posicionada no final do caminho, sendo este um declive até o outro lado da sala ou se essa mesa fica numa posição mais baixa, simplesmente fora do caminho?

Fonte: WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. Penguin Readers Level 4. Pearson Education, 2008.