The port city of Hội An and its bridge during 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 around the northern financial institution, linked to The ocean via the Đại Chiêm Estuary and connected to Đà Nẵng's Đại Estuar