The port city of Hội An and its bridge from the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps from the seventeenth and 18th hundreds of years present Hội An about the northern lender, connected to The ocean by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and linked to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by another