The port town of Hội An and its bridge while in the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historical maps in the 17th and 18th hundreds of years clearly show Hội An over the northern lender, linked to the sea by using the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by A furt