 Internationally renowned Cornish author D. M. Thomas, who spent part of his childhood in Melbourne, visited the town of Truro, South Australia in the late 20th century.There, he found that, ""Cornwall seemed close ... Cornish miners had come in droves in the last century, and played a large part in founding the state.A High School class to which I read and talked had three children with solidly Cornish names, who knew all about their ancestry.""