The port city of Hội An and its bridge within the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps through the 17th and 18th hundreds of years display Hội An around the northern lender, connected to The ocean by means of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and connected to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by An