The port city of Hội An and its bridge from the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historical maps from the 17th and 18th generations clearly show Hội An over the northern bank, linked to the sea by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by A different riv