The port town 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 centuries present Hội An around the northern lender, linked to the sea through the Đại Chiêm Estuary and linked to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by An additional river.W