Sentence:  We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an <WSD>eminence</WSD>, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An elevated land area or a hill.