The port town of Hội An and its bridge from the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historical maps from the seventeenth and 18th generations demonstrate Hội An to the northern bank, linked to The ocean by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by A further