Important hints, towards an amendment of the Royal Dock-Yards [electronic resource] : being, considerations on a late pamphlet on the oak-timber. Wherein some passages in that book are farther explained and illustrated, with suitable Remarks thereon. The whole being intended, by a free and candid Examination of Facts, to remove all such Objections, which, it is most natural to believe, the Want of farther Explanations, &c. may occasion, should the saving of the National Timber ever become the Object of this Nation's Regard. Humbly submitted to the Parliament of Great Britain, and to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. By a man of Kent.