The port town of Hội An and its bridge inside the 18th century. Watercolour engraving by Jacques Chereau (1688–1776), circa 1750. Historic maps in the seventeenth and 18th hundreds of years exhibit Hội An to the northern financial institution, linked to The ocean by means of the Đại Chiêm Estuary and associated with Đà Nẵng's Đại E