The port town of Hội An and its bridge in the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps in the seventeenth and 18th centuries present Hội An around the northern bank, linked to The ocean by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by One more river.Th