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<DD>Reads a Well-Known Text representation of a <A HREF="../../../../com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/Geometry.html" title="class in com.vividsolutions.jts.geom"><CODE>Geometry</CODE></A>
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>wellKnownText</CODE> - one or more <Geometry Tagged Text>strings (see the OpenGIS
         