The port town of Hội An and its bridge within the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps from your 17th and 18th centuries display Hội An over the northern financial institution, connected to The ocean by way of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuary by