Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Egypt is, at all seasons, a strange country, but presents the most surprising appearance at the period of the flood. At that time, not only is the lengthy valley from Assouan to Cairo laid under water, but the Delta itself becomes one vast lake, interspersed with islands, which stud its surface here and there at intervals, and which reminded Herodotus of "the islands of the Ægean. The elevations, which are the work of man, are crowned for the most part with the white walls of towns and villages sparkling in the sunlight, and sometimes glassed in the flood beneath them.

Which word in the passage means the same as 'mixed together'?