The port city of Hội An and its bridge from the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps through the seventeenth and 18th centuries display Hội An within the northern lender, connected to The ocean by using the Đại Chiêm Estuary and connected to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by An additi