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 17th and 18th centuries display Hội An around the northern lender, connected to the sea by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and connected to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by An additional ri