Original sentence: Pretty's description of some of the animals in the area as looking like strange kind of Conies with the tail of a Rat, being of great length lead to its identification as the Botta Pocket Gopher (Thomoys bottae bottae)
Edited sentence: " The source of Drake's error in latitude determination was revealed in a 1999 analysis by Bob Graham.Drake's determination of latitude.Environmental engineer Brian Kelleher published a case for the Drake landing at Campbell Cove at the entrance of Bodega Harbor.Forgers of fake Drake brass plate revealed.Graham retrocalculated solar declinations to find errors in the published tables of Drake's time, and when correcting those declinations for 123 degrees west of London (which Drake could not do), found that at Campbell Cove, in the particular days near the solstice in 1579, Drake would have determined a latitude of 38 30, had he been at Campbell Cove (N38 14).Kelleher's statistical analysis of Drake's determinations of latitude made on land showed that they were within +/- 11 minutes of arc, which made Campbell Cove the only possible anchorage within the determined range of error of The World Encompassed'''s "38,deg.Pretty's description of some of the animals in the area as looking like strange kind of Conies with the tail of a Rat, being of great length'' lead to its identification as the Botta Pocket Gopher (Thomoys bottae bottae).fr:Nouvelle-Albion