Over time, Pelusium, once a bustling port city at the Pelusiac branch of the Nile Delta, declined due to silt deposition by the Nile.
Pelusiac (easternmost)
Strabo counts the Pelusiac and Canobic mouths as the outer two, with five more between them.
Now these are two mouths of the Nile, of which one is called Pelusiac and the other Canobic or Heracleiotic; but between these there are five other outlets, those at least that are worth mentioning, and several that are smaller; for, beginning with the first parts of the Delta, many branches of the river have been split off throughout the whole island and have formed many streams and islands, so that the whole Delta has become navigable