The port city of Hội An and its bridge during the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps in the seventeenth and 18th centuries present Hội An on the northern lender, connected to The ocean by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by One more riv