The port city of Hội An and its bridge inside the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps within the seventeenth and 18th centuries show Hội An over the northern bank, linked to The ocean by using the Đại Chiêm Estuary and connected to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by An additional rive