The port city of Hội An and its bridge during the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps with the 17th and 18th centuries present Hội An around the northern lender, linked to The ocean by using the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by A further river.T