The port town of Hội An and its bridge in the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps through the seventeenth and 18th hundreds of years present Hội An about the northern bank, connected to The ocean by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by A