The port town of Hội An and its bridge inside the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historical maps through the 17th and 18th hundreds of years present Hội An around the northern lender, linked to the sea by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and linked to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by One more ri