The port town of Hội An and its bridge within the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historical maps in the seventeenth and 18th centuries clearly show Hội An over the northern lender, connected to The ocean via the Đại Chiêm Estuary and connected to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by An additiona